eliminative behaviorism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] thus, to the establishment of a sort of eliminative''' behaviorism. Strictly speaking, according to this new account, there is no question of truth of falsity about what a man believes, hopes, intends, supposes, etc. Strictly speaking, we could encounter all the facts there are and not encounter any facts like these. So, it is all right if we cannot express in our purely extensional (or, anyhow, purely nonintentional) language—the language we reserve for such solemnities as formalizing physics—what we can express by reference to intentions."
- "In rejecting mental language as false, this “eliminative behaviorism” in effect asserts that, contrary to what we have always believed, people do not act on their ideas, they do not have beliefs, and they are not swayed by emotions."
- "In effect, cognitive semantics mediates between dualism and its polar opposite, eliminative behaviorism, which repudiates the existence of any mental events or states by reducing them to bodily behavior."
Etymology
From eliminative + behaviorism.
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable