eliminationistn.adj.

1869 J. J. Sylvester in W. J. Miller Math. Questions with their Solutions XI. 82 The preceding method is more instructive, as embodying in a simple instance the transcendental law familiar to eliminationists.

1872 Practitioner 8 364 The subject of lead-poisoning and its treatment is one which the eliminationists would do well to bury in profound silence; for the slightest inquiry into the facts exhibits the organism as..showing no natural tendency whatever towards effecting its own relief.

1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 599/2 The doctrine of elimination was freely discussed; he thought the great laxity of diet and regimen, which was not only permitted but also prescribed by the eliminationist, was a fertile source of future trouble.

1914 K. Miller Out of House of Bondage 127 The most ardent eliminationist may be confidently challenged to point out where the negro vote in that State has ever resulted in the choice of unworthy or incompetent public servants.

1968 Mind 77 46 Those repelled by an eliminationist's sparse universe, or unconvinced by his arguments on its behalf, will doubtless find reason to reject his elimination-thesis.

1992 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 8 Apr. a5/6 We have to know..whether she's a reductionist or an eliminationist on the deficit.

1996 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Electronic ed.) 7 Apr. g8 An eliminationist is convinced that the object of his loathing can and will conquer and destroy the society.

1967 M. W. Wartofsky in Boston Stud. Philos. Sci. 3 129 This is a straightforward, radical eliminationist or positivist view.

1985 E. Gellner Relativism & Social Sci. i. 58 Without that granular metaphysic, the eliminationist view of science, which..is of the essence of Popper's vision, does not work.

1992 Philos. Perspectives 6 365 The choice between reductionist and eliminationist utilitarianism is not an easy one.

2006 Trans. Charles S. Peirce Soc. 42 327 Both Putnam and Taylor..want to avoid Rorty's and Quine's reductionist or eliminationist, normativity-debunking naturalism in favor of a more tolerant and pluralistic pragmatism.

1978 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 18 July An..expert on Russian law..says the recent trials and sentences of Soviet dissidents marks a switch of Soviet policy from ‘containment’ to one that is ‘eliminationist’.

1996 D. J. Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners (1997) xvi. 430 Even many of those who hated the Nazis and plotted to kill Hitler were eliminationist antisemites.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Jan. a19/5 There isn't any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.