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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reificatory en · ADJ

Etymology

From reification + -ory.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That reifies.
    • 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 190:
    • His 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:
    • 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 129: