Reification
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Reification may refer to:
- Reification (computer science), making a data model for a previously abstract concept.
- Reification (fallacy), fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a concrete.
- Reification in Gestalt psychology, where an object is perceived as having more spatial information than is actually present in the original stimulus.
- 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), 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.