The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete or material.
A representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms.
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Examples for "reification "
Examples for "reification "
1 The envoys are perceived as the cormorant reification of their remote controllers.
2 In organics, the soil is the reification of a giving mother's love.
3 The suggestion that marriage can have exact and intrinsic features is a reification fallacy.
4 This happened simultaneously with the reification of many other forms of human praxis: religion, the judiciary, the military.
5 This is not counting "serial" movies such as James Bond, the reification of paranoia shaken and stirred.
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