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Reification vs Concretization - What's the difference?

reification | concretization |

As nouns the difference between reification and concretization

is that reification is reification while concretization is (uncountable) the process of concretizing]] a general principle or idea by delineating, [[particularize|particularizing, or exemplifying it.

reification

English

Noun

  • The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
  • The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
  • (programming) Process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one.
  • The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

    • Synonyms

    * hypostatization * objectification * pathetic fallacy * thingification

    Derived terms

    * reify

    concretization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * concretisation

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process of concretizing]] a general principle or idea by delineating, [[particularize, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
  • * 1934 , J. Tinbergen, "Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory," Econometrica , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 25:
    • There are certain fields in general economics that are at present not so much in need of a broadening of the theoretical basis as in need of a minute working-out and concretization .
  • * 1961 , H. Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State , p. 237:
    • [Law] proceeds from the general (abstract) to the individual (particular); it is a process of increasing individualization and concretization .
  • (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
  • * 1979 , Trudy Scott, "Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles," The Drama Review: TDR , vol. 23, no. 1, p. 75:
    • This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.
  • * 1993 , Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms , ISBN 9780802068606, p. 182 (Google preview):
    • Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).
  • (uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
  • * 1969 , E. Drage and B. Lange, "Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 69, no. 10, p. 2165:
    • Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."

    Usage notes

    * Concretization' and '''concretion''' are rough synonyms but are usually not used interchangeably. '''Concretization''' is more commonly used to refer to a particular embodiment of a general concept or to the process which creates it. ' Concretion is more commonly used to refer to a physical, especially geological, object or to the physical process which creates it.

    Antonyms

    * abstraction

    Related terms

    * concrete * concretize/concretise

    References

    *" concretization" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .