eliminativist

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adjective

Supporting eliminativism, the materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind

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Meanings

adjectiveeliminativist (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesSupporting eliminativism, the materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind

    Option (ii) has two variants: (iia) conclude that the concepts conscious state and conscious creature fail to refer, adopting an eliminativist position; and (iib) claim that future, correct versions of the concepts will be vague.

    2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 239–263
nouneliminativist (plural eliminativists)

plural eliminativists

  1. human sciencesA supporter of eliminativism.

Origin

From eliminative + -ist.

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