eliminativism

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Etymology

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From eliminative +‎ -ism.

Noun

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eliminativism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.
    Synonym: eliminative materialism
    • 2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI:
      This ontology, however, leads to our second problem: the Overdetermination Argument (OA) for eliminativism.
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