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eliminativism

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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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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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. Source: Internet

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