Reification may refer to:
Science and technology
Reification (computer science), the creation of a data model
Reification (knowledge representation), the representation of facts and/or assertions Reification (statistics), the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from a model with experimental observations
Other uses
Reification (fallacy), the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present Reification (linguistics), the transformation of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables Reification (Marxism), the consideration of an abstraction of an object as if it had living existence and abilities
See also
Concretization
Objectification, the treatment of an entity (such as a human or animal) as an object