According to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Actually, I never said that before, and I had to look up the word reification, but you get the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Actuators/Units] Reference
Now and again, you political science folks really ought to learn some history, stuff that it outside your comfort zone in reification. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Harkin Reintroduces Filibuster Reform] Reference
It's a hypothetical construct based on a logical fallacy called "reification". From Wordnik.com. [McCook Daily Gazette Headlines] Reference
A good friend of mine is a Tom Townsend type-he uses the terms "reification," "dialectic," and "power structures" outside the confines of a philosophy seminar. From Wordnik.com. [Columbia Daily Spectator] Reference
I think that's what's sometimes called a reification. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Equality] Reference
I like the way you put it in terms of reification though. From Wordnik.com. [Essentialist Intuitions] Reference
Of lesser importance to biology is the function of reification. From Wordnik.com. [BIOLOGICAL MODELS] Reference
Gerry Canavan: reification and dystopia in mass culture skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [reification and dystopia in mass culture] Reference
But I still think that Cedarford is guilty of reification of speculation?. From Wordnik.com. [I'd be embarassed to talk about shame so much.] Reference
The pain was unbelievable, a reification of personal loss, physical grief. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
One is a 700 year old reification, a dead man walking who wants vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [That's when I reach for my gigawatt plasma rifle] Reference
The twin problems of disaggregation and reification arise in each instance. From Wordnik.com. [Applied philosophy of history] Reference
The result is a reification of concepts and endless quibble over terminology. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodletting] Reference
So the reification of the totemic dress can commence, now that I have the fabric!. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Grail, check. Next stop, Atlantis! - A Dress A Day] Reference
I didn't mean to sound like I was assuming a particular reification of Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Nation Irony] Reference
I think it's something like "white flight," but more like reification or reintegration. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Get Cultural: Cycling Causes Importance] Reference
Pratchett's Narrative Causality strikes me as a reification of this "basic stories" idea. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative causality] Reference
The accessibility of information has led to deflation; deification has become reification. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Baird Gewirtz: Thoughts on Kitsch and Culture after Mao] Reference
For a self-styled nonconformist medium, the Internet is the reification of herd mentality. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the Internet's Founding Myths] Reference
I think that what Continental thought does is try to avoid the reification of such matters. From Wordnik.com. [Essentialist Intuitions] Reference
The denial of history: reification, intellectual property rights and the lessons of the past. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: 9/11: The Unraveling of the Official Story Continues] Reference
So if we reject reification for quantum physics, we should also reject it for classical physics. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
Through the reification of their being, their “primal non-originating” emptiness is ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
The narcissistic leader is the culmination and reification of his period, culture, and civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Narcissistic Leaders] Reference
Trademarks in the more limited sense is a legal reification of the relationship between a buyer and a seller. From Wordnik.com. [A Quick One about Intellectual Property] Reference
Debates over economic policy too often get derailed by the extreme reification of theoretic economic concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Sky series: The anonymous hedge-fund manager's plan] Reference
Both participation and reification are modes of existence to help shape the future of a community of practice. From Wordnik.com. [TWITTER AS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR EDUCATORS: MICROBLOGGING EXPLORED] Reference
Geoff: Is the linguistic phenomenon of nominalization connected much to the ontological phenomenon if reification?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”] Reference
Closely re - lated to this kind of comprehension is a form of weak hypotheses testing that accompanies reification. From Wordnik.com. [BIOLOGICAL MODELS] Reference
Any attempt to conceptualise existence falsifies it through reification that determines an essence grasped in the mind. From Wordnik.com. [Mulla Sadra] Reference
As first generation Critical Theorists saw it in the 1940s, this process of reification occurs at two different levels. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
So the idea of group mind is not completely a fallacious reification of metaphor -- it's a way of looking at a cohesive group. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: Politics on the Edge: Bailouts, Bunko, and Group Madness] Reference
Governments are instruments of self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement, and the reification and embodiment of said subversion. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism for a Post-modern Age] Reference
But it is a mistake of reification to treat this abstraction as an extra entity, with mysterious relations to the physical domain. From Wordnik.com. [Biological Information] Reference
As far as having 'leaders' at the center, it feels counter to the reification/participation dynamic that Wenger points out in his book. From Wordnik.com. [Roles in CoP's] Reference
One of the root ideas of post-modern theory is a critique of the power dynamics behind reification of canons, traditions, and criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative, essentialist] Reference
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