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REIFICATION [3 records]

Record 1 2012-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

He considered reification as a specific phenomenon, that by which relations between human beings assume the form of relations between things.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
DEF

Processus qui conduit à traiter les relations sociales comme des choses.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

In order to express this fact to RDF, we have to model the original statement as a resource with four properties. This process is formally called reification in the Knowledge Representation community. A model of a statement is called a reified statement.

OBS

reification: term taken from a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) document. The W3C's role is to establish standards relating to Internet technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

La réification permet de définir informatiquement une chose quelconque sous forme d'un objet : passage d'une chose, d'un évènement vers une entité qui représente cette chose ou cet évènement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy (General)
DEF

The process or result of reifying.

CONT

The general idea here is to use a form of reification to help the student do her own blame assignment ...

OBS

reify: to regard (as an abstraction, a mental construction) as a thing: convert mentally into something concrete or objective.

OBS

According to J. Piaget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
DEF

Transformation de concepts, de théories, d'hypothèses, etc., en objets concrets, en réalités.

OBS

La différence de sens avec le concept de réification n'est pas universellement admise et dépend des auteurs.

OBS

Réifier : chosifier. Transformer en chose. Donner un caractère de chose.

OBS

réification : Action par laquelle on transforme quelque chose de mouvant, de dynamique en être fixe, statique. (Selon les existentialistes, ce processus peut se confondre avec la chosification.)

Spanish

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