Definitions
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- noun The fact or process of turning something into a
thing ;reification .
Etymologies
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From thing + -ification, following thingify.
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Examples
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The "thingification" of education has cost us an immeasurable loss of values and insight.
Thomas Moore: Redefining Education: Cultivating the Soul 2010
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Interesting that the lingering differentiator may well be the "thingification".
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Normatively: by defining property in terms of right to exclude, the law could avoid the “thingification” of property and the labor/natural rights theory of property, aka the Lockean theory.
Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
thesaurosie commented on the word thingification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(Marxism)
August 6, 2009