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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. 〔 〕〔 (Logical Fallacies, Formal and Informal ) 〕 In other words, it is the error of treating something which is not concrete, such as an idea, as a concrete thing. A common case of reification is the confusion of a model with reality: "the map is not the territory". Reification is part of normal usage of natural language (just like metonymy for instance), as well as of literature, where a reified abstraction is intended as a figure of speech, and actually understood as such. But the use of reification in logical reasoning or rhetoric is misleading and usually regarded as a fallacy. ==Etymology== From Latin ''res'' "thing" + ''facere'' "to make", ''reification'' can be loosely translated as ''thing-making''; the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reification (fallacy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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