Examples of 'reification' in a sentence

Meaning of "reification"

Reification is a concept in philosophy and social theory that refers to the process of treating abstract ideas or constructs as if they have a concrete or independent existence
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  • The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
  • The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
  • A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
  • The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

How to use "reification" in a sentence

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Reification applies to background as well as to game mechanics.
I shall call this the problem of reification.
Reification means to make the abstract concrete.
I wonder how much of this is a process of reification.
Reification of visual properties for composition tasks.
All of this is rendered feasible by a process of reification.
Reification is traditionally a part of war rhetoric or genocide.
Logic and the reification of universals.
Reification is widely used in conceptual modeling.
And absolute reification is absolute death.
Reification occurs when an abstract concept is treated as a concrete.
Various kinds of reification are considered.
It also points to a technological determinist perspective in terms of reification.
But reification does not obtain in all forms of capitalist production.
Indigenous recognition often involves the reification of culture.

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Reification is treating an abstract idea or property as if it were a concrete physical object.
Marx pursued this analysis in his analysis of reification.
Reification in knowledge representation is the process of turning a predicate into an object.
Of the extremes of denial and reification.
The suffering of reification refers to the need to abolish the capitalist totality.
Such universals express various degrees and modes of reification.
Reification of the isolated linguistic element to the neglect of the dynamics of speech.
This is usually known as reification.
Reification of ideas.
Imagination has not remained immune to the process of reification.
Buddhism is opposed to that kind of reification in all its varieties.
He notes that our tendency to think in this manner is akin to reification.
But the reification of humans is bad for business and for capitalism itself.
The dead need no reification.
Reification takes place when a free worker ascends to the free market place.
This is called reification.
Objective and subjective information concepts are based on the underlying worldview of reification.
My own little reification.
The negotiation of meanings was formed by the dynamic duality of participation and reification.
Reification is one of the most frequently used techniques of conceptual analysis and knowledge representation.
A description of a statement using this vocabulary is called a reification of the statement.
Such a task demands resistance to the reification and fragmentation that characterizes the disciplines.
The comment made by concerning his use of the concept of reification is on point.
For related usages see Reification knowledge representation.
Reification and Naturalism.
We must find another relationship to nature besides reification and possession.
Reification and Verification.
Far less are we interested in defending a supposed particularism and reification of the social conditions.
Felt like the reification of mankind 's anger.
In the case of humusation, classical arguments against reification emerge.
Goethe 's reification of darkness is rejected by modern physics.
Thomas theorem Reification.
Is this just reification or is there a scientific explanation?
Lukács emphasizes concepts such as alienation, reification and class consciousness.
However, when reification is used as part of a logical argument, it is fallacious.

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