Meanings
- not comparableThat reifies.
Note that wherever, above, I have spoken about 'time' and 'times', I should be understood to have done so entirely without reificatory intent.
2013, Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler, Josef Quitterer, The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, →ISBN, page 1292 more examples
For one, the reification of cultural identities can be a political necessity in the pursuit of equal rights: precisely because the reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation, both political and mediatic, it is a useful resource in challenging established inequalities.
2002, Heidrun Friese, Aleida Assmann, Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries, →ISBN, page 190His conceptualization eschews some crucial normative and epistemological distinctions between various forms or modalities of translation, especially between stronger and weaker ones (or reificatory and non-reificatory ones) and, in doing so, impairs our ability to evaluate them, viz. of choosing the side of the weak.
2003, Dick Pels, Unhastening Science, →ISBN
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