Subj : Dictionary.
To   : John Wilson
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Tue Oct 31 2000 02:09 am

 -=> Quoting John Wilson to Dave Oldridge <=-

 DO> Aren't you simply reifying his metaphor?

 JW> Damn! My (small) dictionary des not contain the word "reifying"

	Mine does.  "to regard [something abstract] as a material
thing."  

 JW> I have probably wanted to reify a metaphor *dozens* of times!

 JW> I don't know what it's for
 JW> My unrefied metaphor..
 JW> I hope that brfore I die
 JW> I will learn to reify...

	Uh-oh. . . I first ran across the word in an abnormal psych
book to describe one of the thought processes in schizophrenia!



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