Elimination and naturalism are two too closely bonded ideas. Naturalism in order to establish it's supremacy and dominance claims that a lot of phenomenon that does not fit with the thesis of naturalism does not exist i.e it just eliminates it. This act of naturalism to use elimination as an explanation to prove itself is baseless eliminativism.
"If therefore he comes across some phenomenon that is hard to account for in materialist terms, he often ends up by denying its very existence. For instance, many materialist philosophers deny that there is any such thing as subjective experience. Philosophers call this view 'eliminativism'. What cannot be explained by theory is eliminated from consideration." - Stephen Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.
"If therefore he comes across some phenomenon that is hard to account for in materialist terms, he often ends up by denying its very existence. For instance, many materialist philosophers deny that there is any such thing as subjective experience. Philosophers call this view 'eliminativism'. What cannot be explained by theory is eliminated from consideration." - Stephen Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.
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