reification

"Some people use religion as a reification tool, in order to create a non-existent world so that they can do things the way they want and create a world they want.

Among their topics are philosophy and the ontologies of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence, the discipline of ontological engineering, embracing the formal revolution in applied ontology: Guarino's impact, formal ontology to the proof of facts, and towards a logical foundation of reification in modeling languages.

However, articles of agreement of the above-mentioned company is awaiting reification by Turkey while Pakistan and Iran have already done the needful at their ends.

"Reification: How States Fix Religions in Space and Time" (where reification is defined as turning religion into a thing).

By way of contrast, the author also critiques Jane Addams and her Hull House Labor Museum's "reification of the color line," in which many ethnic minorities effectively "become white" while other people of darker hues "were explicitly deemed Other and inassimilable." Despite their best intentions, Addams and other settlement residents unwittingly exacerbated the awesome power of "whiteness." Nonetheless, the author makes a powerful case that, "by utilizing the familiar and irrefutable language of shared blood," they nudged their readers toward a more inclusive understanding of both nation and family.

This view involves reification of human phenomena, conceiving of living reality as if it consisted of "things," so that moral universality becomes one thing, A, and history another, B.

The idea that all living things are random points of arrestation, as it were, in a blind mechanism of physical occurrences, governed by pragmatic advantages, is already an expression of a Cartesian objectification of living things, a reification of Nature, which was to be the prelude and the corollary of the reification of the Person.

To appreciate how Article 3 functions as a title system, it is necessary to consider a key feature of negotiable instruments: under the doctrine of merger, the instrument is the reification of the payment obligation.

He also seeks to avoid the reification of religion in the analysis of Middle Eastern politics, arguing that politics has shaped religion as much or more than religion has shaped politics.

His reification of power through power, plated in gold, is flawless and incisive.

Connections both to the historical and to Conceptual art will emphasize the late artist's use of diverse strategies, from travesty to debasement and humor, to savagely critique the body's reification in art.