reify ... to treat (an abstraction) as substantially existing, or as a concrete material object -- reification: n
Thank you for the new word (new to me) that must have a significant place within philosophical dialogue. Need I wonder why I've never heard it?
That reminds me of the general ignorance surrounding the word eudaemonism; how many people have ever heard that -- highly significant -- philosophical word?
Then I have repaid thee for the ping. As common a fallacy you will never find as this one. It is the father of the thousand camels in the camel yard, as the Arabs used to say.
You have never heard of it because it is used to bury a plethora of philosophical skeletons in countless metaphysical dead end closets. Once revealed it can bump in the night no more.
eudaemonism - sent me diving for my dictionary, but there is a check mark by the root, so I've been there, so hard to keep all these obscure definitions in use.
How far we are from such a concept. How abstract - an emotion generated from right actions taken. A depth of thought rarely conceived of today.