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reification

February 24 2009 at 4:54 PM
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Reification (also known as hypostatisation or concretism) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea. For example: when one person "holds another's affection", affection is being reified.

OR another example - what relativists do.

 
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February 24 2009, 5:04 PM 

Yet Another EXample of reification:
Reification (also known as hypostatisation or concretism) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea. For example: when one person "holds another's affection", affection is being reified.

OR another example - what relativists do.

But this is not only an idea, this is also a real stupidity.

 
 
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Re: reification

February 24 2009, 5:11 PM 

yes what relativists do is - a real stupid idea

 
 
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