Reification

• Reification (computer science)
  Reification (computer science)
  
  Reification is a process through which a computable/addressable object - a resource - is created in a system, as a proxy for a non computable/addressable object....
  , making a data model for a previously abstract concept
• Reification (fallacy)
  Reification (fallacy)
  
  Reification is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete, real event or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea....
  , fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
• Reification in Gestalt psychology
  Gestalt psychology
  
  Gestalt psychology or gestaltism is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holism, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies; or, that the whole is different from the sum of its parts....
  , where an object is perceived as having more spatial information than is actually present in the original stimulus
• Reification (knowledge representation)
  Reification (knowledge representation)
  
  Reification in knowledge representation is sometimes used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way; for example, to compare logical assertions from different witnesses to determine their credibility....
  , used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way
• Reification (linguistics)
  Reification (linguistics)
  
  Reification in Natural Language Processing refers to where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables....
   in natural language processing, where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables
• Reification (Marxism)
  Reification (Marxism)
  
  Reification is the consideration of an abstraction, relation or object as if it had human or living existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations....
   (German: Verdinglichung), the consideration of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations
• Reification (statistics)
  Reification (statistics)
  
  In statistics, reification is the use of an idealized model of a statistical process. The model is then used to make inferences connecting model results, which imperfectly represent the actual process, with experimental observations....
  , the consideration of a `perfect' model which is used to make inferences connecting (imperfect) model results with experimental observations

See also

• Objectification
  Objectification
  
  Objectification is the process by which abstract concepts are treated as if they were concrete things or physical objects. In this sense the term is synonym to reification....