Reification
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Reification generally refers to bringing into being or turning concrete.
Specifically, reification may refer to:
Specifically, reification may refer to:
- Reification (computer science)Reification (computer science)Reification 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 computable/addressable object — a resource — is created in a system as a proxy for a non computable/addressable object...
, making a data model for a previously abstract concept - Reification (fallacy)Reification (fallacy)Reification is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea...
, fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing - Reification in Gestalt psychology, where an object is perceived as having more spatial information than is actually present in the original stimulus
- Reification (knowledge representation)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...
, used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way - Reification (linguistics)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...
in natural language processing, where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables - Reification (Marxism)Reification (Marxism)Reification or Versachlichung, literally "objectification" or regarding something as a separate business matter) is the consideration of an abstraction, relation or object as if they had human or living existence and abilities, when in reality they do not...
(German: Verdinglichung), the consideration of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations; sometimes called objectification - Reification (statistics)Reification (statistics)In statistics, reification is the use of an idealized model of a statistical process. The model is then used to make inferences connecting model results, which imperfectly represent the actual process, with experimental observations....
, the consideration of a ‘perfect’ model which is used to make inferences connecting (imperfect) model results with experimental observations