Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or effecting elimination; specifically, excretory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or producing
elimination
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There is even a school of thought in philosophy, fueled by neurobiology, called eliminative materialism.
In Which Yours Truly Sinks Into the Abyss of Definition... littlemissattitude 2005
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There is even a school of thought in philosophy, fueled by neurobiology, called eliminative materialism.
January 2005 littlemissattitude 2005
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There is even a school of thought in philosophy, fueled by neurobiology, called eliminative materialism.
Archive 2005-01-01 littlemissattitude 2005
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They advocate what is called eliminative materialism.
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They advocate what is called eliminative materialism.
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They advocate what is called eliminative materialism.
Evolution News & Views megnor 2008
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They advocate what is called eliminative materialism.
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She implies that eliminative materialism is not a program for reforming the taxa of psychologists and neurologists, but some kind of quixotic campaign against poetry in ordinary language.
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I would only make this specific argument from self-contradiction against someone who claimed that no mental states exist (i.e., some version of eliminative materialism), or a radical skeptic who claimed that we know nothing about mental states.
The Philosophy of Introspection, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These criticisms often arbitrarily burden the biological category of race with some implausible connotations, which then opens the path for a quick eliminative move.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » A Vindication of the Concept of Race 2010
vanishedone commented on the word eliminative
As in eliminative materialism.
November 4, 2008