Reification

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