mechanistic

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Examples

• This assumption has its origin in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, and is part of what we call the mechanistic worldview.

• For all his enthusiasm about driving, however, Banham takes pains to refute the “common mechanistic misconception that everything in Los Angeles is caused by the automobile as a way of life.”

• The range of experiments, from acoustic analysis to fMRI, also provides “a nice next stepping stone to develop a more methodical and mechanistic understanding of how we process screams,” he says.

• Because these mRNA vaccines work by providing instructions to your body to make spike protein, this local response to the vaccine makes mechanistic sense.

• A common method is eroding the plausibility of the concept by appealing to the mechanistic nature of reality.

• This monistic soul-hypothesis, then, is at bottom mechanistic.

• They are mechanistic as indicating the mechanism, the means, of accomplishing the possibilities which they indicate.

• Kate had been rash enough to endeavor to explain something of the Fulhams' theories regarding the mechanistic conception of life.

• According to the old mechanistic theory, the world could be reduced to two elements, matter and motion.

• In fact, the reversed film of the cinematograph may be regarded as the reductio ad absurdum of the mechanistic hypothesis.