Reification (fallacy)
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title:
Reification (fallacy)
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Reification is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity.
In other words, it is the error of treating something that is not concrete, such as an idea, as a concrete thing. A common case of reification is the confusion of a model with reality: "the map is not the territory". Reification is part of normal usage of natural language, as well as of literature, where a reified abstraction is intended as a figure of speech, and actuall
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Fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
date created:
2007-04-22T00:48:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T17:44:25Z
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