reify

Object

• statement: With this constraint, many of the possible options for overcoming reified statements become impossible.
• concept: By contrast, Augustine is favoring a reifying concept of sign.
• structure: The disadvantage of this approach is that reified structures are created which do not structure things in any natural way for human consumption.
• notion: Thorn is OK as far as it goes but many people use it to reify the notion of mental illness, which is unnecessary.
• relation: At this stage of modernity, we only seem to be able to work together successfully through the mediation of reified social relations.
• object: It supposed a kind of communication on music as a reified object, which opposed music making and listening as communication between partners.

Modifying Another Word

• thereby: So, I would be reluctant to declare the concept of ' intention ' redundant in case we thereby reified texts.
• only: Capitalist consumption reifies not only the structures of the economic base but also the constructs of abstraction.