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Re: Eliminative materialism and ordinary usage

  • Subject: Re: Eliminative materialism and ordinary usage
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 08:54:44 +0100
  • Newsgroups: uk.philosophy.misc
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__/ [ Robin Faichney ] on Saturday 20 May 2006 19:38 \__

> I used to think eliminative materialism was blatant rubbish, assuming
> that when it was asserted that all the concepts of folk psychology
> would be eliminated, replaced by biological explanations, that was
> supposed to happen even among ordinary people in everyday usage. Maybe
> I'm stupid, but it only just occurred to me that maybe most or all
> eliminativists only expect that to happen within science, which seems
> a bit more reasonable. Or maybe they just don't think about that
> distinction. Any comments?

I agree with the latter. It'll happen within science, which is closely
related to biological explanations.

Best wishes,

Roy

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