So to clarify, reification, in the sense you use it here, refers to explaining some thing A by a reference to an thing X, whose existence we need to postulate to explain A (or some other thing B, for which we have already postulated that X exists)?
So reification means “the act of making real” in most english dictionaries (see here for example). That’s the meaning we’re trying to evoke here, where the reification bias amounts to first postulate some underlying entity that explain the phenomena (that’s merely a modelling technique), and second to ascribe reality to this entity and manipulate it as if it was real.
So to clarify, reification, in the sense you use it here, refers to explaining some thing A by a reference to an thing X, whose existence we need to postulate to explain A (or some other thing B, for which we have already postulated that X exists)?
So reification means “the act of making real” in most english dictionaries (see here for example). That’s the meaning we’re trying to evoke here, where the reification bias amounts to first postulate some underlying entity that explain the phenomena (that’s merely a modelling technique), and second to ascribe reality to this entity and manipulate it as if it was real.