eliminativist
English edit
Etymology edit
eliminative + -ist
Adjective edit
eliminativist (not comparable)
- (philosophy) Supporting eliminativism, the materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind
- 2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis[1], volume 68, number 2, , →ISSN, pages 239–263:
- 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.
Noun edit
eliminativist (plural eliminativists)
- (philosophy) A supporter of eliminativism.
Further reading edit
- eliminative materialism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia