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reify

to consider something abstract as real; to treat an abstraction as if it has concrete existence
(noun: reification)

Sightings:

reify:

Would you rather surf? Or shop at the mall?

The many faces of Monica

Tolerance as a step-by-step process

Valuing labor as well as work

G-d in the Torah


reification:

How to speak Postmodernism

Thingifying technology

Look out: Topsy-turviness gonna getcha

Ideas that become tangible

Dissecting ideology

Real-life freedom (explore for a sociology bulletin board)

Squares in your brain (explore for writings on cognitive and neural systems)

Learning for the bottom line

Artful words -- Marxist version

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