Reification
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Reification may refer to:
Science and technology
- Reification (computer science), the creation of a data model
- Reification (knowledge representation), the representation of facts and/or assertions
- Reification (statistics), the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from a model with experimental observations
Other uses
- Reification (fallacy), the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
- Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present
- Reification (linguistics), the transformation of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables
- Reification (Marxism), the consideration of an abstraction of an object as if it had living existence and abilities
gollark: <:bees:724389994663247974>.
gollark: https://discord.com/channels/346530916832903169/348702212110680064/811234330491748353
gollark: Consume bees, Lua good.
gollark: ... Lua?
gollark: (or, knowing helloboi, FASM won't work due to [ACCURSED SETUP])
See also
- Concretization
- Objectification, the treatment of an entity (such as a human or animal) as an object
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