- Eliminative
- Eliminative E*lim"i*na*tive, a. (Physiol.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. [1913 Webster]
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Eliminative
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eliminative — adjective Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination The eliminative power of the storm … Wiktionary
eliminative — elim·i·na·tive i lim ə .nāt iv adj serving or tending to eliminate specif relating to, operating in the process of, or carrying on bodily elimination <the eliminative organs> … Medical dictionary
eliminative — ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌnā]d.]iv, nə], ]t], ]ēv also ]əv adjective : serving or tending to eliminate; specifically : relating to, operating in the process of, or carrying on bodily elimination citrous foods aid the eliminative organs in their work … Useful english dictionary
Eliminative materialism — (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people s common sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people… … Wikipedia
Eliminative materialism — the philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. • Christian materialism the philosophical… … Mini philosophy glossary
eliminative induction — In eliminative induction a number of possible hypotheses concerning some state of affairs is presumed, and rivals are progressively eliminated by new evidence. The process is an idealization, since in practice no closed set of initial theories is … Philosophy dictionary
eliminative — adjective see eliminate … New Collegiate Dictionary
eliminative — See elimination. * * * … Universalium
eliminative — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of, relating to, or tending to eliminate: cathartic, eliminatory, evacuant, evacuative, excretory, purgative. See KEEP … English dictionary for students
eliminative — adj. tending to eliminate, tending to remove … English contemporary dictionary
