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What does reification mean?

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Noun
  1. The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
  2. The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
  3. (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
  4. (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
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As first generation Critical Theorists saw it in the 1940s, this process of reification occurs at two different levels.
We reject the reification of the poor and seek to make them not objects of our pity but subjects of their own development and agents of change.
Nietzsche pits intuition, metaphor, and the Dionysian against rationality, conceptual reification, and the Apollonian.
And in these times of crisis, reification, and dehumanization, I love the possibility of the human being's future vindication.
The show, which ended its seven-season run in May, began as a reification of the horrors of high school.
If we make decisions based on our worst fears, rather than a realistic assessment of their likely reification, we are acting out of panic.

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