The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 132 of 254

Eliminative materialists feign anaesthesia

The first is that thoughts, feelings, emotions and so on are real. There are some ‘eliminative materialists’ who claim that they aren’t, but in I.A. Richards’s famous phrase, such thinkers seem to ‘feign anaesthesia’,…

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