Reification
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Reification (Lat. res thing + facere to make), or hypostatization, n., the turning of something into a thing or object; the error which consists in treating as a "thing" something which is not one.
Reification may refer to:
- Reification (computer science), the act of making a data model for a previously abstract concept.
- Reification (knowledge representation), used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way.
- Reification (linguistics), in natural language processing, where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables.
- Reification (Marxism), (German: Verdinglichung) is the consideration of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations.
[edit] See also
- Hypostatic abstraction
- Hypostatic object
- Pathetic fallacy
- Prescisive abstraction
- Frege, Gottlob
- Lukács, Georg
- Berger, Peter
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