Regarding something abstract as a material thing

Usage examples of reification.

Sandy the witch wanted to heal, to make of the physical world, if not an absolute reification of divine love, then at least an echo of it, to touch pain and sickness with a hand that was at once her own and that of her Goddess, manifesting divinity with word and with music.

Each implementation would be scored against a single criterion -- how successfully the reification initiative is fought off.

Dylar is a kind of pharmaceutical reification of white noise: a pill to evade the death-fear.

The common error in all three of these philosophical positions is reification, which makes it impossible to construct compelling theories accounting for interrelationships among reified entities of any kind.

The problem lies not in the inaccessibility of consciousness, as Searle implies, but in the absolute reification of subjective consciousness versus objective reality.

The techniques of the fantasy -- reification of abstract concepts within the framework of a simplified moral system -- lend themselves to the exposure of existing social and cultural ills.

At the present time, unfortunately, all signs point, not to decentralization and the abolition of man-herders, but rather to a steady increase in the power of the Big Shepherd and his oligarchy of bureaucratic dogs, to a growth in the size, the complexity, the machine-like efficiency and rigidity of social organizations, and to a completer deification of the State, accompanied by a completer reification, or reduction to thing-hood, of individual persons.

The pain was unbelievable, a reification of personal loss, physical grief.

Bandar knew the dark eidolon was not the real Gabbris, was in fact a projected reification of those negative qualities that Bandar rejected in his own makeup.

Yet the truth is that they were the culmination and reification of European history in the 19th century.

The reification of paradox is the underlying, unspoken phenomenon of this discourse.

Henry Mackie says is a famous revolutionary catchword and which outlines, in clear, simple language, Henry Mackie's program for the reification of the human condition from the ground up.

It could be an egomaniac's sublime nirvana state -- the self, exponentiated by countless virtual duplicates that reflect and resonate in perfect harmony, preparing to burst through, en masse, to a splendid new level of spiritual reification.

This tendency is known as reification, and according to the Madhyamaka view, this is an inborn delusion that provides the basis for a host of mental afflictions.