reification

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A good friend of mine is a Tom Townsend type-he uses the terms "reification," "dialectic," and "power structures" outside the confines of a philosophy seminar.

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  1. Materialization; objectivization; externalization; conversion of the abstract into the concrete; the regarding or treating of an idea as a thing, or as if a tiling. [Rare.]

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  • We become willing parties to our own reification, to our assimilation into the giant digital data machine. —  PopMatters
  • Around the same time I noticed this bar situation I came across the term "reification" in my comparative literature course, and it seemed to resonate with what has gone on in gay culture generally and helps to explain why gay bars in the city are now catering to specific lifestyles rather than to gay people in general. —  Vue Weekly
  • Ernest Mandel's major criticism of reification is the lack of room it makes for complexity. —  Vue Weekly
  • It's a hypothetical construct based on a logical fallacy called "reification". —  McCook Daily Gazette Headlines
  • Simply stated, reification, a common academic term, points to the treatment […] —  Autism Hub
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  1. from reify + -ation (see -fication).
 

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