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Reification vs Conceptualization - What's the difference?

reification | conceptualization |

As nouns the difference between reification and conceptualization

is that reification is reification while conceptualization is the process of forming a conceptual form of a phenomenon; the act of conceptualizing.

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

    conceptualization

    English

    Alternative forms

    *conceptualisation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of forming a conceptual form of a phenomenon; the act of conceptualizing
  • The concept so formed; something conceptualized