Relating to or serving to eliminate; functioning to remove or get rid of something.
From eliminate + -ive (adjective suffix). Latin root eliminare (to put out beyond the threshold).
In neuroscience and psychology, 'eliminative materialism' is a wild theory suggesting our everyday words for thoughts might be as wrong as calling lightning 'fire spirits'—eliminating our vocabulary itself.
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