English Dictionary

reification

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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.

日本語の意味

抽象的な概念や事象を具体的・実体的なものとして捉えること / 無生物をあたかも生物であるかのように扱うこと / 人間を非人格的なオブジェクト、または単なる対象として取り扱うこと

The philosopher warned that reification can obscure social relations by turning dynamic processes into static things.

その哲学者は、抽象的な概念を具体的なもののように扱うことが、動的な過程を静的なものに変えて社会的関係を見えにくくしてしまうと警告した。

意味（1）

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.

The reification of art and religion, a symptom of their historical obsolescence, takes the form of their instrumentalization, their reduction to a mere use value. At this point they become ‘cultural goods’, writes Adorno, and ‘are no longer taken quite seriously by anybody.’

意味（2）

The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.

意味（3）

(programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.

Contrary to Java, C++ and C# implement generics via reification, meaning that each specific version of a generic class, like List is converted into a concrete class, either at compile time (C++) or at runtime (C#).

意味（4）

(linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

reifications （ plural ）