In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ELIMINATIVISM
Etymology
Noun
eliminativism (uncountable)
(philosophy) The materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind
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PRESCRIPTIVE
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
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