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No Stupid Questions
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In some contexts eliminate would be violent and aggressive. If you eliminate a witness or eliminate competition it has a very different connotation to eliminating a bad habit for example.
Admittedly there can be variation in how people interpret word choice, but there are still differences between the two words.
+1 to you, otherwise
When You Have annihilated the Impossible Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be the Truth
There's a difference between destroying something so it can never be true, and ruling it out through deductive reasoning why it can't be true. There's a greater opportunity to learn by dismissing something but leaving it intact.