Re: Reification

Russ Hunt (HUNT who-is-at academic.stu.StThomasU.ca)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:22:45 AST

Unless I'm real wrong about this, reification doesn't mean actually
_making_ the abstraction concrete (an impossibility) but forgetting
that it _is_ an abstraction, and then going on as though it _were_ a
concrete object.

For example, if I reify "freedom" or "understanding" I might start
talking as though, and thus thinking that, it's an object I could give
you . . .

-- Russ
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