eliminativism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
eliminative + -ism
Noun[edit]
eliminativism (uncountable)
- (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, :
- This ontology, however, leads to our second problem: the Overdetermination Argument (OA) for eliminativism.
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Further reading[edit]
eliminativism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Eliminative Materialism, plato.stanford.edu
