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Material Reductivism

In the Philosophy of Mind, a materialist position which maintains that all mental events can be reduced to physical events (specifically, brain events).

Reductivists do not want to purge our langauge of mind-talk as do the more radical eliminativists, they simply want us to recognize that what we have traditionally called mental phenomena are in fact physical in nature.


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