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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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I want you to be mindful of what is called hylozoism and reification in philosophy.
Nietzsche pits intuition, metaphor, and the Dionysian against rationality, conceptual reification, and the Apollonian.
As first generation Critical Theorists saw it in the 1940s, this process of reification occurs at two different levels.
The reification of humans, turning them into things, is a familiar pattern in modern warfare.
It would be social scientists using an analytic strategy that avoids reification and is cognizant of the pitfalls of reductionism and dualism.
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.

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