Just figured out a test for figuring out someone’s religion. Look fo the dead words (words used strictly with unexamined negative or positive valence) at the highest active level of abstraction.
i wish there was an easy/commonly understood way to say this. i usually wanna say they're "reifying" x but that might be slightly wrong and its not super well known
Yeah that’s wrong. Reifying is just treating an abstraction as an object level thing but the operation does not imply a static valence. It’s neither necessary nor sufficient for dead-wording.