Eliminative materialism holds that folk psychology is a radically false theory whose ontology will not survive mature neuroscientific revision (Paul Churchland, 'Eliminative Materialism,' 1981).

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Neuroscientific revision(what might disprove folk psychology concepts): Changes and improvements to our understanding of the brain and how it works as science learns more about it.
Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake): The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
Paul Churchland(the source of this philosophical position): A contemporary American philosopher famous for arguing that our ordinary mental concepts (like 'belief' and 'desire') don't actually refer to real things and will eventually be replaced by better neuroscientific explanations.
eliminative materialism(philosophy of mind): The view that folk psychological states (such as beliefs and propositional memories) do not exist because nothing in a successful scientific account of cognition shares the central properties attributed to those states

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