ABSTRACT

At a very first glance, a monist view seems to be the exact opposite of eliminativism since it claims that the only object that exists is the world, while eliminativism denies it and claims that there are only simples arranged worldwise. But is this really a very strong disagreement? After all, while the eliminativist claims that there are no chairs but that there are simples arranged chairwise, the monist also claims that there are no chairs, but that the world has chair-ish aspects. Maybe then, the disagreement is much less substantive than what might be thought.