eliminativism
Noun
Meaning
eliminativism (uncountable)
(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
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Examples
Eliminativism is the thesis that the ontology of folk psychology including such entities as "pain", "joy", "desire", "fear", etc., are eliminable in favor of an ontology of a completed neuroscience.