Eliminativists Think That Common-Sense Mental States, Including Beliefs, Desires, and Pains

Multiple Choice

Eliminativists think that common-sense mental states, including beliefs, desires, and pains, are

A) brain states; they are identical to the mental states to which they correspond.
B) emergent properties; they arise from certain underlying mental states.
C) like witches; they are the posits of a mistaken folk theory, and we should come to grips with the fact that they do not exist.
D) mere epiphenomena; they appear real to us, but have no causal efficacy.