The map is not the terrain
- transforming abstract things into concrete mental representations is key to cognition
- even if it is a fallacy, the representation needs to be concrete
- capturing it into the representation is the act of making it concrete
- Proper representation of abstract concepts can preserve the vague boundaries in the agent’s mental concept space
Reification (computer science) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(knowledge_representation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(linguistics)
- perception, adding more information than is present in sensory data
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology#Reification
- more interesting perceptual rules in Gestalt psychology