Meaning of reification in English

Examples of reification

reification
The reification of actions as influences enables the environment to combine simultaneously performed activities in the system.
Further, its reification has largely extinguished consideration of alternative classificatory models for depressive disorders.
Additionally, reification of virtual tuples typically introduces customized code for the components that is no long er the same modulo type annotations.
Alternatively called reification, stable mobiles, or cultural artifacts, these things are often literacy materials.
Part of the point of this article is to cast that kind of reification of written forms into doubt.
As objects or units of analysis, genres, like languages, are reifications - abstractions from the dynamic flux of communicative practice.
The field guid is a global unique identifier for the logical formula12, which can simplify reification and make the code more compact.
Reification is a general principle of perceptual processing, of which boundary completion and surface filling-in are more specific computational components.
Peepshows are claimed to have involved reification through popular consumption and collective memory.
Either way, both sides engage in deliberate reification and both gain by picturing the economy as largely abstracted from experience.
Reification renders such processes machine-analyzable by reorganizing them to use operations that are easier for computers to instrument.
Researchers are themselves caught up in the same processes of interpretation and reification.
Here we skirt the deep waters of false consciousness, of reification and mystification.
Special consideration is taken for representing blank nodes, containers/collections and reification.
The factory-made watch is "a talisman" (559) and not a reification that conceals its embedded abstractions.
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Translations of reification

in Chinese (Traditional)
(抽象概念的)物體化,具體化…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(抽象概念的)物体化,具体化…
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