eliminative behaviourism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
British standard spelling of eliminative behaviorism (“theory that mental states do not exist and therefore, statements of the mind are statements of physical behavior”)
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Suffice it to say that no account satisfying the strictures of eliminative behaviourism has ever approached the level of success of folk psychology in offering plausible explanations of human behavior, and that after a great deal of propaganda and sterile methodological debate, this movement has been laid to rest."
- "After the initial introspectionist period the controlling philosophy of psychology was precisely eliminative behaviourism— the total rejection of the ‘mentalism’ of commonsense psychology."
- "If there is one intuition that seems to be central to taking psychology seriously, it's that desires cause behaviours. Our desire for ice cream causes our bodies to move towards it in certain conditions. Our pains cause us to flinch. To deny all of that is to eliminate psychology — which is why perhaps eliminative behaviourism could live with this consequence."
Etymology
From eliminative + behaviorism.