Look up: reification

1. reification
   Alleged social process whereby relations between human beings are transformed into impersonal relations between things. The Hungarian thinker Georg Lukács, in History and Class Consciousness...
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2. reification
   the treatment of something abstract as a material or concrete thing, as in the following lines from Matthew Arnold`s poem `Dover Beach`: The Sea of ...
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3. Reification
   (computer science) `Reification` (from Latin res (thing) + facere (to make), i.e. "to make into a thing") is the process by which an abstract idea about a computer program is turned into an explicit data model or other object created in a programming language. A comput...
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4. Reification
   (knowledge representation) `Reification` in knowledge representation involves the representation of factual assertions, that are referred to by other assertions; which might then be manipulated in some way. e.g., to compare logical assertions from different witnesses in order to determine the...
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5. Reification
   (linguistics) `Reification` in natural language processing refers to where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables. For example "John chased the duck furiously" can be transformed into something like :(Exists e)(chasing(e...
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6. Reification
   (fallacy) `Reification` (also known as `concretism`, or `the fallacy of misplaced concreteness`) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity.<ref name=auto>http://theautonomis...
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