eliminativism

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Eliminative materialism
Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist. Some eliminativists claim that no neural correlates will be found for many everyday psychological concepts, such as belief and desire, and that behaviour and experience can be explained adequately only on the biological level. Other versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such as pains and visual perceptions.
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eliminativism
The position that folk psychology is a false theory and that corresponding notions such as belief, experience, and sensation are fundamentally mistaken. The alternate most often offered is physicalist and the position is thus often called 'eliminative materialism '.
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