eliminative
- adjective
- /ɪˈlɪməˌneɪtɪv/
- Jargon
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eliminativo
- Heidegger speaks repeatedly and quite reductively of the commodification of the world into a "world picture" where reason combined with eliminative-naturalistic categories takes a power-political effect via 'explaining away' life-forms.
Examples
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Eliminative accounts hold that our beliefs about our mental states are radically false and, consequently, that no match-up between brain states and mental states is possible.
Academic text (2003) -
The philosophy of mind and action has long contained arguments for various forms of material reductionism and for eliminative materialism.
Academic text (2003) -
That is, and in keeping with the inescapably eliminative nature of materialism, she seeks to "explain" choice and freedom by explaining it this way: the "freedom" she asserts equates to "there is no freedom."
Blog text (19) -
In a structurally similar way, eliminative and reductive materialists agree that there is no such thing as the Cartesian res cogitans but disagree over whether this licenses the denial of the existence of minds.
Academic text (1998) -
The eliminative theory argues that concepts like 'mind' should be dismissed in favor of physical explanations.
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In philosophy, an eliminative approach denies the validity of traditional mental states in favor of neurological insights.
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The scientist adopted an eliminative perspective, suggesting that many psychological phenomena are illusions with no real existence.
Antonyms
How Dismissive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eliminative comes from the verb eliminate, from the old Latin parts e- 'out' and limen 'threshold', so it originally meant to 'push out' or drive away. In philosophy, an eliminative stance 'pushes out' older ideas by saying they are not real or valid.