Reify

"reify" (definition): To regard an abstraction or idea as if it had concrete or material existence. (reification)

I think this is may be a useful word to popularize. Reify was not in my computer's spell check list, but the word seems to encourage thinking about many of the problematic states of mind caused by a confusion between reality and imagination or ideas about reality.

It seems to me that many items of belief fall into this category of confusion--things perhaps believed in which are not actually real.

Isn't it?

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