The performative self-refutation argument assumes that negation must be phenomenally conscious, but functionalist and eliminativist accounts allow negation as a non-phenomenal computational state.
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(Lewis was an eliminativist about religion, contrasting with his compatibilism in other domains)
The position that the entities or concepts in question do not exist or should be rejected from one's ontology
functionalism(Philosophy of mind; distinguished here from representationalism)
The view that mental states are defined by the causal roles they play in a cognitive system — their actual, potential, or typical causal relationships.
negation(Standard truth conditions for logical negation, used as the basis for arguments against dialetheism)