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  • verb Present participle of reify.

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Examples

  • "Engaging the culture" sounds so amorphous and runs the risk of committing an error of 'reifying' something that has no substantial reality in itself--Christians are called to love their neighbor, and we do so in accordance with the specific vocation God has given to us, so if anything lay people are called to engage their neighbors.

    Archive 2008-07-27 papabear 2008

  • Yeah, I thought on afterwards Sangermaine and realising he could be using it in some "reifying" sense which would just about work, but then I reckon he'd be playing a bit fast-and-loose with the grammar (the "dao" that may be reified as The Way ...).

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2009

  • Yeah, I thought on afterwards Sangermaine and realising he could be using it in some "reifying" sense which would just about work, but then I reckon he'd be playing a bit fast-and-loose with the grammar (the "dao" that may be reified as The Way ...).

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2009

  • From the magic of consciousness to the reifying function of language, the value of art and the morality of science, "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore" is a brilliant, unruly brute of a book - the kind of thing Richard Powers might write while pumped up on laughing gas.

    Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011

  • By naming them this way she was reifying a memory of some kind and converting it into a 'personality'...

    Patrick Suraci: Sybil in Her Own Words Patrick Suraci 2011

  • And with the collapse of the USSR, America stood unrivaled, reifying a core belief that this global network of foreign bases had in part been vital to American success and strength.

    Steve Clemons: US Bases Abroad Trigger Suicide Terrorism: Are There Other Options? Steve Clemons 2010

  • And with the collapse of the USSR, America stood unrivaled, reifying a core belief that this global network of foreign bases had in part been vital to American success and strength.

    Steve Clemons: US Bases Abroad Trigger Suicide Terrorism: Are There Other Options? Steve Clemons 2010

  • From the magic of consciousness to the reifying function of language, the value of art and the morality of science, "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore" is a brilliant, unruly brute of a book - the kind of thing Richard Powers might write while pumped up on laughing gas.

    Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011

  • And with the collapse of the USSR, America stood unrivaled, reifying a core belief that this global network of foreign bases had in part been vital to American success and strength.

    Steve Clemons: US Bases Abroad Trigger Suicide Terrorism: Are There Other Options? Steve Clemons 2010

  • By naming them this way she was reifying a memory of some kind and converting it into a 'personality'...

    Patrick Suraci: Sybil in Her Own Words Patrick Suraci 2011

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