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How are you oblivious of the performative contradiction that is that statement?

Please tell me you're not an eliminativist. There is nothing respectable about eliminativism. Self-refuting, and Procrustean in its methodology, denying observation it cannot explain or reconcile. Eliminativism is what you get when a materialist refuses or is unable to revise his worldview despite the crushing weight of contradiction and incoherence. It is obstinate ideology.



TIL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism

> Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. It is the idea that the majority of mental states in folk psychology do not exist. Some supporters of eliminativism argue that no coherent neural basis will be found for many everyday psychological concepts such as belief or desire, since they are poorly defined. The argument is that psychological concepts of behavior and experience should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. Other versions entail the nonexistence of conscious mental states such as pain and visual perceptions.


> Eliminativism is what you get when a materialist refuses or is unable to revise his worldview despite the crushing weight of contradiction and incoherence.

Funny, because eliminativism to me is the inevitable conclusion that follows from the requirement of logical consistency + the crushing weight of objective evidence when pitted against my personal perceptions.




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