reifying

• “Engaging the culture" sounds so amorphous and runs the risk of committing an error of 'reifying' something that has no substantial reality in itself--Christians are called to love their neighbor, and we do so in accordance with the specific vocation God has given to us, so if anything lay people are called to engage their neighbors.”

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• “Yeah, I thought on afterwards Sangermaine and realising he could be using it in some "reifying" sense which would just about work, but then I reckon he'd be playing a bit fast-and-loose with the grammar (the "dao" that may be reified as The Way ...).”

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• “Am I reifying gender by living and transitioning this way?”

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• “Does the fact that I am not “transgressing gender” mean that I am “reifying the gender binary”? and how exactly is this not just repeating the same trope that trans-exclusive radfems throw at trans women?”

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