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#reification
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Aspects of modism criticized in the 13th century
Two other aspects of modism are in the focus of these criticisms: (1) the assertion of a close structural analogy between spoken or mental language and external reality (2) the inadmissible reification of the modus significandi adherent to its description as some quality or…
Ontology And Reification
Quine: ontology is what variables range over
Quine wrote that one's ontology coincides with the ranges of the variables in one's formalism. This usage is entirely appropriate for AI. Present philosophers, Quine perhaps included, are often too stingy in the reifications they permit. It is sometimes necessary to quantify…
Rdf Primer
Reifying a statement is not asserting it
Note that asserting the reification is not the same as asserting the original statement, and neither implies the other. That is, when someone says that John said something about the weight of a tent, they are not making a statement about the weight of a tent themselves, they…
Reification is not quotation
It is also important to note that the interpretation of reification described here is not the same as "quotation", as found in some languages. Instead, the reification describes the relationship between a particular instance of a triple and the resources the triple refers to…
Resource Description Framework - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Reification, contexts and named graphs
The body of knowledge modeled by a collection of statements may be subjected to reification, in which each statement (that is each triple subject-predicate-object altogether) is assigned a URI and treated as a resource about which additional statements can be made, as in "Jane…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Multiplicity multiplies the mistake of reification
this is where I think talk of multiplicity repeats the error it is trying to correct. The problem with our intuitive sense of self is that it excessively ‘reifies’: it makes a singular thing out of it. Multiplicity does exactly the same, only at a lower level: making singular…