palani
26th July 2016, 06:39 AM
Reification:
Reification is making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete. Reification may also refer to: Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is actually present.
Now this word (reification) is interesting because (as you are aware) the rule is "i before e except after c" and here we clearly have a violation of that rule. Therefore perhaps considering the 're' to be a prefix leads to the concept that 'ification' is a suffix. A quick search for 'ification' leads to
Suffix
-ification
the process of becoming.
So in your mind a map becomes 'the United States of America' and a FRN becomes a gold coin.
My thoughts? If you could imagine anything into existence then who knows what limits you might have. Heck, maybe Man could walk on the Moon, or a wide body jet could fly into the Pentagon and entirely disappear or even (gasp!) Obama might be president!!!
Reification is making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete. Reification may also refer to: Reification (Gestalt psychology), the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is actually present.
Now this word (reification) is interesting because (as you are aware) the rule is "i before e except after c" and here we clearly have a violation of that rule. Therefore perhaps considering the 're' to be a prefix leads to the concept that 'ification' is a suffix. A quick search for 'ification' leads to
Suffix
-ification
the process of becoming.
So in your mind a map becomes 'the United States of America' and a FRN becomes a gold coin.
My thoughts? If you could imagine anything into existence then who knows what limits you might have. Heck, maybe Man could walk on the Moon, or a wide body jet could fly into the Pentagon and entirely disappear or even (gasp!) Obama might be president!!!