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Definition of Reifying
1. reify [v] - See also: reify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reifying
Literary usage of Reifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fertility: Current South African Issues of Poverty, HIV/AIDS & Youth ...by Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Dept. of Social Development, Human Sciences Research Council (Hsre by Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Dept. of Social Development, Human Sciences Research Council (Hsre (2004)
"The chronic experience of emotional false consciousness thus has the consequence
of reifying inequitable relationships and blaming the victim. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The Pythagoreans have been criticised for ' reifying ' number in making it the
principle of all things. Descartes has been criticised for treating extension ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"If we use this word, we shall be more likely to avoid the error of reifying our
mental processes; for it will constantly remind us that, whenever we refer ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"Here we have the " reifying " of darkness, and we probably see the influence of
the comparatively bright spots in the attribution of eyes to the monster, ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1910)
"We reject this view in its extreme formulation and have pointed out that it is
based upon the error of reifying the unity of a compound thing. ..."
6. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"In fact, such a psychology has actually undertaken to explain philosophic thought
as a disease of language, differing from religion only by reifying instead ..."
7. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"In fact, such a psychology has actually undertaken to explain philosophic thought
as a disease of language, differing from religion only by reifying instead ..."
8. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"RECTIFICATION, a reifying or na- k'me rieht. F. of L. RECTIFICATION [ with
Cty*rifti ] я the ..."
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