Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not eliminable; that cannot be eliminated, thrown out, or set aside.

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  • adjective unable to be eliminated.

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Examples

  • It's rational to believe that irrationality is an ineliminable aspect of human mentality.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Peirce's idea of the economy (or: the economics) of research is an ineliminable part of his idea of the scientific method.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Uses of the intentional stance to explain the behavior of computers and other complex artifacts are not just common; they are universal and practically ineliminable.

    Blurring the Line 2007

  • The persistent presence of the mother's dilemma - the sense of loneliness, doubt, and abandonment - seems palpable and ineliminable.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • The persistent presence of the mother's dilemma - the sense of loneliness, doubt, and abandonment - seems palpable and ineliminable.

    Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009

  • After all, the fact that our intuitions conflict in the puzzle cases does not necessarily mean that there is some deep-seated, ineliminable incoherence in the concepts we're applying to them.

    Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

  • The causally problematic feature here is this apparently ineliminable contextual or relational component of intentional mental states and goings-on.

    Mental Causation Robb, David 2008

  • Campbell holds that while relational discourse is ineliminable, relations themselves come down to their foundations, the properties of their relata in which they are grounded (1990: 98ff).

    Tropes Bacon, John 2008

  • Phenomenology, like all modern thought, must accept the unthought as the ineliminable “other” of man.

    Michel Foucault Gutting, Gary 2008

  • He also allows that architectonic awareness may play a role in enhancing one's moment-to-moment experience, and may even play an ineliminable part in the understanding of some pieces.

    The Philosophy of Music Kania, Andrew 2007

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