 A second and more serious problem is that this alternative conception of eliminative materialism is not, strictly speaking, a type of eliminative materialism. The claim that some category possesses members but the category itself is nevertheless ill-suited for science is not just a weaker version of the claim that a category is ill-suited for science because it has no members. Say what you will about weeds, clothing, pets and other kinds that are not scientifically respectable, it is clearly wrong to suggest these things are not real. Thus, to avoid confusion, it would probably help if a term other than ‘eliminativism’ was adopted to designate this alternative conception. Irvine and Sprevak’s ‘discourse eliminativism’ is problematic because, besides wrongly implying it is a version of eliminativism, there can also be discourse changes that involve the elimination of a term but where the relevant relabeled category is fully retained. The term ‘consumption’ has been dropped from our scientific nomenclature, but it successfully referred to the legitimately taxonomized disease we now refer to as ‘tuberculosis’. Perhaps a phrase like ‘category dissolution’ or ‘conceptual fragmentation’ would more accurately capture the sort of thing that people like Griffiths and Machery have in mind.