Reification

Reification may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Reification (computer science), the creation of a data model
 * Reification (knowledge representation), the representation of facts and/or assertions
 * Reification (statistics), the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from a model with experimental observations

Other uses

 * Reification (fallacy), the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing
 * Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is present
 * Reification (linguistics), the transformation of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables
 * Reification (Marxism), the consideration of an abstraction of an object as if it had living existence and abilities