reification

the process by which an abstract idea about a person, place or thing, is turned into an explicit data model or other object created in a programming language

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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