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What does reify mean?

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  1. (transitive) to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
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The extent of this schizophrenia should not be overdrawn, but the potential existed for conflicting positions to reify.
The philosophy of modern medicine has been diverted from attention to the sick and has begun to reify the sickness.
I'm not sure it would be so much relieving boredom as providing youth with youth examples that would not reify the use of alcohol.
Others, myself included, have discussed celebrity as a kind of art, providing narratives that reify themes and ideas in the culture much the way myths do.
They would be forced to consider their own values and the sort of actions necessary to reify those values in the world.
Moreover, it is important not to idealize and reify traditional culture.

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