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Simplifying occurrences of "reification"

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Adamw (talkcontribs)

I had a question about the use of “reification”, whether there’s a specific background or reason for using that word?  If not, I find it distracting and maybe wrong… AFAICT, reification is more about ideas becoming a thing in people’s minds, rather than ideas actually turning “real”/“physical”.  I’m thinking we can say “values are embodied in technologies” rather than reified…. "embedded" as you have elsewhere in the paper works for me as well. Or maybe “brought to life”.

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