Reification can refer to various things:

• (Lat. res thing + facere to make) n. the turning of something into a thing or object; the error which consists in treating as a "thing" something which is not one. Hypostatization, treating an abstract entity as if it were concrete, is a case in point. The other meanings stem from this.

• Reification (computer science), the act of making a data model for a previously abstract concept.

• Reification (knowledge representation), used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way.

• Reification (linguistics), in natural language processing, where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables.

• Reification (Marxism), the consideration of a human being as a physical object, deprived of subjectivity.

See also

• Hypostatic abstraction
• Hypostatic object
• Pathetic fallacy
• Prescisive abstraction
• Frege, Gottlob
• Lukács, Georg

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