eliminativistn.adj.

1968 Papers in Psychol. 2 11 Arguing on a more factual basis, the aim of these psychological eliminativists to effect a theory formulated in terms of purely functional I.V.s [= intervening variables] has not as yet been realised.

1988 G. Madell Mind & Materialism iii. 74 If..we take the eliminativist to be suggesting that the very notion of rationality itself is to be discarded, then we are justified in saying that nothing could be more self-defeating.

2011 W. Jaworski Philos. of Mind iv. 72 Eliminativists deny that the mental conceptual framework has any descriptive or explanatory legitimacy.

1968 Papers in Psychol. 2 11 These two considerations constitute a formal proof of the weakness of the eliminativist view... Elimination of theoretical terms..would not necessarily eliminate reference to theoretical (unobserved) entities.

1985 Amer. Philos. Q. 22 73/1 Our approach represents an alternative to eliminativist and reductionist strategies regarding pain-qualia.

2013 E. Irvine Consciousness as Sci. Concept Pref. p. v I argue for an eliminativist stance towards the concept of consciousness.