a question for the academic-types on my friends list

In terms of the literature in the humanities, is there really a difference between "accepting the ontology" of something and "reifying" it? The only difference that comes to my mind is that authors give "ontology" a postive valence and "reification" a negative valence, but it seems to function the same way - you are treating something as a separatable thing, a formed concept, etc.

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