THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THIS LECTURE AND THE LAST ONE If eliminativism is right, then we cannot reduce types of mental states to anything else. That means, the natural kinds of any type of mental states cannot survive a strict implementation of an eliminativist program o Somehow similar to this case from an eliminativist perspective, the Great French Revolution is not a legitimate label which can pick out a single historical event. Rather, it should be viewed as a label attached to a loose collection of the behaviors of numerous individuals. Though historians need to rely on this label when the behaviors of individuals are epistemologically inaccessible to them; they also need to be prepared to abandon this label when new data are available If eliminativism is right, then we cannot reduce types of mental states to anything else. That means, the natural kinds of any type of mental states cannot survive a strict implementation of an eliminativist program.  Somehow similar to this case: from an eliminativist perspective, the Great French Revolution is not a legitimate label which can pick out a single historical event. Rather, it should be viewed as a label attached to a loose collection of the behaviors of numerous individuals. Though historians need to rely on this label when the behaviors of individuals are epistemologically inaccessible to them; they also need to be prepared to abandon this label when new data are available