What is "reifying"

Usage examples of "reifying".

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.