Transformation vs Reification - What's the difference?
transformation | reification |
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
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.