Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
objectification .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Converting into an object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The conversion of a
concept orabstraction into anobject . - noun physics An
interpretation of aquantum mechanical concept in terms ofclassical physics .
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Examples
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He saw that the "objectivation" of matter made the mind very mysterious.
September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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In so doing, general relativity theory with its variably curved spacetime, brought a further advance in the steps or levels of "objectivation" lying at the basis of physics.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Balanced against this is the objectivation of sex as a commodity and of women as property and prey.
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Balanced against this is the objectivation of sex as a commodity
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Thus methodological individualism can sometimes impede the sort of radical objectivation of social phenomena that the use of certain sociotheoretic models or tools requires.
Methodological Individualism Heath, Joseph 2009
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All this is really more than a mere parable: it is the underlying identity of the will at very different degrees of its objectivation, in virtue of which the same law of motion takes such different forms.
Religion 2004
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For in the lower orders its activity is not so evident; it has a lower degree of objectivation; whereas, in the class which stands above the higher order of animals, that is, in men, reason enters in; and with reason comes discretion, and with discretion, the capacity of dissimulation, which throws a veil over the operations of the will.
Religion 2004
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The latter is the privilege of intellectual and moral truths, which are concerned with the objectivation of the will in its highest stages, whereas physical truths are concerned with it in its lowest.
On Human Nature 2004
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Will is, according to him, the fundamental reality of the world, the thing-in-itself; and its objectivation is what is presented in phenomena.
Religion 2004
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