eliminativism

English

Etymology

eliminative +‎ -ism

Noun

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.

Related terms

• eliminativist

Further reading

• eliminativism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eliminative Materialism, plato.stanford.edu