Actually, I never said that before, and I had to look up the word reification, but you get the idea. Actuators/Units

Actually, I never said that before, and I had to look up the word reification, but you get the idea. Archive 2005-12-01

Home and thus Tony White consider this obsession with harmony - usually understood politically under the term 'reification' - an error of one-sidedness. Brit Lit Blogs

Now and again, you political science folks really ought to learn some history, stuff that it outside your comfort zone in reification. Matthew Yglesias » Harkin Reintroduces Filibuster Reform

Goodman (2005: 369) warned against what they called the "reification" of the local, arguing for the need to make localism "an open, process-based vision, rather than a fixed set of standards". Transition Culture

I guess the Marxist word for this would be "reification," where movies are seen as metaphysical projections of the collective unconscious instead of internally conflicted products that blend art and commerce, while new masterpieces emerge every few weeks (and are then abandoned) and debate is preempted by a Rotten Tomatoes rating. News & Politics

Around the same time I noticed this bar situation I came across the term "reification" in my comparative literature course, and it seemed to resonate with what has gone on in gay culture generally and helps to explain why gay bars in the city are now catering to specific lifestyles rather than to gay people in general. Vue Weekly

A good friend of mine is a Tom Townsend type-he uses the terms "reification," "dialectic," and "power structures" outside the confines of a philosophy seminar. Columbia Daily Spectator

It's a hypothetical construct based on a logical fallacy called "reification". McCook Daily Gazette Headlines