Criticism
Brandon Watson has attacked the fallacy of reification as not being an actual fallacy, but rather a piece of "philosophical folklore", which is either false or else so vague as to be useless.. Watson traces the origin of the "fallacy" to Jophn Stallo's philosophy of physics, and more recently to the logical positivist Morris Raphael Cohen.
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