misplaced concreteness

Who Coined The Term Reification?

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Who Coined The Term Reification? In Marxist theory, reification is linked to people’s alienation from work and their treatment as objects of manipulation rather than as human beings, and was popularized by György Lukács, but the term is given a variety of meanings by different schools of Marxist thought. Who came up with reification? Lukács’s

What Is Reification In Literature?

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What Is Reification In Literature? Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. What is an example of reification? Reification is a complex idea for