Editing Reification

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'''Reification''' may refer to:

==Science and technology==
* [[Reification (computer science)]], the creation of a data model
* [[Reification (knowledge representation)]], the representation of facts and/or assertions
* [[Reification (statistics)]], the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from a model with experimental observations

==Other uses==
* [[Reification (fallacy)]], the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
* [[Reification (Gestalt psychology)]], the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present 
* [[Reification (information retrieval)]], the transformation of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables
* [[Reification (Marxism)]], the consideration of an abstraction of an object as if it had living existence and abilities

==See also==
* [[Concretization]]
* [[Objectification]], the treatment of an entity (such as a human or animal) as an object

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