单词 | eliminativism |
释义 | eliminativismn. Philosophy. The view that certain terms and concepts used in a particular field of enquiry fail to describe or refer to real phenomena, and hence should be eliminated; spec. an extreme form of materialism which denies the existence of some or all types of mental state. Cf. eliminative adj. 3, eliminationism n. 1. ΚΠ 1973 D. C. Mellick Metaphysics of Behavior (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Univ.) vii. 189 Richard Rorty's materialistic eliminativism is stated in terms of the elimination of the referring use of an expression. 1987 Noûs 21 295 Reductive realism is midway between absolutism and eliminativism. 1997 Nature 21 Aug. 733/2 You adhere to eliminativism and say that colours are illusions. 2002 R. Carter Consciousness ii. 61 Eliminativism is the most extreme of the ‘hard’ materialist views. It..challenges our own experience in the most fundamental way—by claiming it does not exist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1973 |
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