This seems straightforward to me: reification is a process by which our brain picks out patterns/features and encodes them so we can recognize them again and make sense of the world given our limited hardware. We can then think in terms of those patterns and gloss over the details because the details often aren’t relevant for various things.
The reason we reify things one way versus another depends on what we care about, i.e. our purposes.
This seems straightforward to me: reification is a process by which our brain picks out patterns/features and encodes them so we can recognize them again and make sense of the world given our limited hardware. We can then think in terms of those patterns and gloss over the details because the details often aren’t relevant for various things.
The reason we reify things one way versus another depends on what we care about, i.e. our purposes.