eliminativism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English eliminative Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English eliminativism From eliminative + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The 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: