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reify

VERB
  1. consider an abstract concept to be real

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  • No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
  • In the end, accountability groups provide for many of the men a sense of equality with their fellows even as they serve to reify particular types of social hierarchies.
  • I have been witness to efforts by some in the Middle East to twist and distort comments made by American policymakers, Israeli leaders, and others in order to reify their fantastic but unreal constructs explaining some international event or accident or decision. Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate
  • Factor analysis is harmless as data reduction, but it is tempting to "reify" the factors, to suppose that they are the hidden causes behind the observations. American Scientist Online
  • I'll discuss our tendency to reify categories after we create them and our tendency to exaggerate the differences between the categories that we create.
  • Our fourth and final point is that it is not clear why market participants should suddenly forget the arbitrary way the conventional judgment is formed once it has been established (and reify the price it supports).
  • Further, Eddie's pursuit and ultimate success in obtaining and reifying an American Dream not corrupted by materialism offers the impression that it was somewhat easy to obtain.
  • I think we’re underrepresented in cisgender queer theory, cisgender “third gender” anthropology, and armchair feminism, that those fields reify this gender-non-conforming/third-gender/gender-non-binary/whatever deal, and that subversivist communities look down on transsexual women (and sometimes men). Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
  • It seems to me we are in danger of reifying as "masculine" the very qualities that mose of us also deem patriarchal. All The Oligarch Alumni News That Fits, We Print
  • The post-Cartesian theoretical move in this regard is to avoid mentalist discourses that reify or disembody such shared resources and thereby bifurcate the dynamically embodied person.
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