Paper 1 · Research Aptitude
UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 (23.09.2022) Shift-II
Imagining things as if they are real is known in research as
AVirtual reality
BReplication
CReification ✓ Correct
DSimulation
Correct answer: (C) Reification — The answer is reification.
Explanation
★The answer is reification.
★Reification is a fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
★It treats an abstraction as if it were a concrete, real thing.
★So imagining things as if they are real is known as reification.
★It confuses a hypothetical construct with a physical entity.
★The other terms describe different ideas in research.
★So the answer is reification.
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