reification

Noun

Meaning

representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality

regarding something abstract as a material thing

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according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual Source: Internet

In a 1982 review of The Mismeasure of Man, Jensen gives point-by-point rebuttals to much of Gould's critique, including Gould's treatment of heritability, the "reification" of g, and the use of Thurstone's analysis. Source: Internet

For example, David Newbury rejects the migration thesis outright, but allows for "mobility" in which people of different physical stock arrived in the region, but without "an interpretation that relies on racial determinism or ethnic reification." Source: Internet

Notational centricity also encourages "reification: the score comes to be seen as 'the music', or perhaps the music in an ideal form." Source: Internet

The first is the fallacy of " reification ", which is "our tendency to convert abstract concepts into entities" Gould, S. J. (1981). Source: Internet

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