tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post584567335362364836..comments2024-01-16T09:31:45.073-04:00Comments on Anderson Brown's Philosophy Blog: What Does Eliminativism Claim?Anderson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18358008464457746997noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post-19051621011411348172010-03-20T08:12:25.908-04:002010-03-20T08:12:25.908-04:00Eliminativism - There is a persistent misunderstan...Eliminativism - There is a persistent misunderstanding inherent in both criticisms and neutral reportage of eliminative determinism that in the event of such eliminativistic reduction being generally adopted the beloved abstractions of traditional and academic folk philosophy will be gone for ever as a consequence of the need to establish a reality-contactedness appropriate for the challenges of the twenty-first century.<br /><br /> In fact most obfuscatory dualism will be semantically fused into the physical holism in a similar way that the neologism 'matergy' is starting to replace the dualistic reificative split between ‘matter’ and ‘energy’ to become 'datergy' which is the ontological reality of 'data' and 'energy.’ <br /><br />Such linguistic movement from dualism to monism will also be achieved semantico-syntactically, with such reifications as 'cause' and 'causality' eliminated using such dispositional sentential forms as: ‘a causal object, a causal entity,’etc. which make clear that inter-matergic impingement is an existential modality of causal objects and that the thingification 'cause' and 'causality' do not exist either as quasi-objects or instatiations of some transcendental activity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com