Timeline for Classroom platonism
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 23:02 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @David, had that chance? | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 4:10 | comment | added | David Feldman | Oddly, I thought to call my concept reification. I'll respond further once I've had a chance to read what you cite. | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 1:15 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | @Gerard: It is interesting that reification is also a logical fallacy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy) | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 1:14 | history | edited | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2012 at 0:13 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | My sole experience with the term reification (before encountering Jon Bannon's usage) was in a book of Stephen Jay Gould (The Mismeasure of Man, if my memory serves me), where he mentioned its misuse to create things which weren't really there to help indicate intelligence. A weak but worrying parallel is the creation of derivatives as investment vehicles. I recommend Gould's take on the subject of reification. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2012.06.18 | |
| Jun 18, 2012 at 23:55 | history | answered | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |