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Word: Eliminative
Speech Type: Adjective
early 19th century; earliest use found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. From eliminate + -ive
Of, relating to, or causing elimination of waste material, foreign or toxic substances, etc., from the body.
Generally. That eliminates, or tends to eliminate, someone or something; concerned or employed in elimination.
Designating an approach to a particular field of enquiry which states that certain terms and concepts used within that field fail to describe or refer to real phenomena, and hence should be eliminated; specifically (especially in "eliminative materialism") designating an extreme form of materialism which denies the existence of some or all types of mental state.
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