Reification (statistics) definition

Reification (statistics)

WordNet

(1) Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality

"According to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"

(2) Regarding something abstract as a material thing

WiktionaryText

c. 1846 Macaronic calque translation of , using for + for

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.