What is "reify"

Usage examples of "reify".

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.

To reify and alienate these facets of our inner life is to fragment each of us from within.

Some reify the fundamental laws of physics so far as to attribute qualities to them that are traditionally ascribed only to God, claiming that they are universal, absolute, omnipotent, and eternal, existing independently even of the state of the universe.

For all statements, however, ranging from the most personal and subjective to the most impersonal and objective, there is a deeply ingrained tendency to reify their truths.

The strong tendency to reify the existence of elementary particles also extends to probabilities.

Christianity, when it was Greek and not Latin, and which, without an Aquinas to reify it, had remained shrouded in the smoke of tradition and mystery whence it began.

If capital through advertising is able to reify the shopping experience in consumer consciousness before the moment of purchase, what happens after the product has been used?

As Ong points out, writing reifies, it turns mental processes into manufactured things.

Thus, he roundly rejects both consciousness and matter as reified entities.

Is it possible that contemplative experiences that transcend our ordinary reified concepts of subject and object and so on may have a strong bearing on the insights drawn from modern physics itself?

The things that tormented her drifted away until they were less important than the distant song of an imbo that reached her ears and shivered there like reified delight.

The rain fell like reified darkness, driving every scrap of illumination to its knees.

Others, such as van Fraassen, maintain that the alternative to reifying the contents of science is to equate science not with a dogma but with a quest in which one immerses oneself in a worldview without reifying it, accepting scientific theories as constructs that are more or less successful in making the appearances of the natural world intelligible.

James seems to have fallen into the trap of reifying his own concept of a field of consciousness, and this may have prevented him from determining, even to his own satisfaction, the way in which consciousness does and does not exist.

Leah Hager Cohen suggests that in reifying money, we almost deify it, and both elements are essential.