eliminativism

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noun

The materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.

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nouneliminativism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.

    This ontology, however, leads to our second problem: the Overdetermination Argument (OA) for eliminativism.

    2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI

    Synonyms: eliminative materialism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.

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eliminative materialism
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eliminative materialism

Origin

From eliminative + -ism.

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