Reification

What it is

Treats an abstraction as if it were a concrete thing with its own will or agency.

Related

• Narrative fallacy bias
  Treating "the market" or "history" as an agent makes a simple narrative possible.
• Personification bias
  Reification treats abstractions as things; personification treats things as persons.

References

• Wikipedia: Reification en.wikipedia.org
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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