Associations to the word «Reification»
Noun
- Fallacy
- Alienation
- Abstraction
- Predicate
- Marxism
- Commodity
- Marx
- Capitalism
- Consciousness
- Gould
- Critique
- Theorist
- Vocabulary
- Concept
- Representation
- Ideology
- Discourse
- Construct
- Usage
- Object
- Specification
- Framework
- Perception
- Statement
- Transformation
- Participation
- Logic
- Context
- Theory
- Argument
- Philosopher
- Knowledge
- Recognition
- Analysis
- Essay
- Process
- Philosophy
- Aspect
- Relation
- Instance
- Data
- Existence
- Language
- Relationship
- Religion
- Programming
- Nature
- Idea
- Term
- Subject
- Practice
- Culture
- Creation
- Experience
- Type
- Factor
- Science
- Form
- View
- Principle
- Structure
- Use
- Property
- Computer
- Sense
- Influence
- Community
- Or
Adjective
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Wiktionary
REIFICATION, noun. The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
REIFICATION, noun. The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
REIFICATION, noun. (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
REIFICATION, noun. (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
Dictionary definition
REIFICATION, noun. Regarding something abstract as a material thing.
REIFICATION, noun. Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.