mechanistic
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌmɛkəˈnɪstɪk/
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mecanicista
- In biology, a mechanistic explanation of life focuses on physical processes rather than spiritual ones.
- mechanistic view
- mechanistic paradigm
- mechanistic worldview
And this comes from a view of the mechanistic science of it.
- And this comes from a view of the mechanistic science of it.
- So I, I've all that to say that there's a clear mechanistic basis by which this could all work.
- So like you said, you are a, you're a believer of the mechanistic universe.
- Now, it's also a mechanistic conception of nature and of the human being.
- And while that might be great for for promoting growth, we understand through a lot of mechanistic research.
- They no longer understand it and they are really not able to function at more than a very simple mechanistic level.
- And in that sense I would I would think of it as a pure mechanistic object and constrained in its intelligence.
- You know, what kinds of behaviors would we have to, would we have to explain if we were going to look down at the mechanistic level?
- But but what you're raising here is a very interesting mechanistic scenario that that can can and as you mentioned is being explored.
- So these become mechanistic ways of how we are understanding things right now, and they also then provide intervention points to walk ourselves back from some of these symptoms.
- Meditation for me was far more mechanistic.
Examples
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Is there something essential that the predictive, almost mechanistic view of consciousness is missing?
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One vision of life reduces trees to a mechanistic notion of biotic functioning.
Academic text (1994) -
And this comes from a view of the mechanistic science of it.
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You might say Pieces gives a somewhat mechanistic view on it.
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Now, it's also a mechanistic conception of nature and of the human being.
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At this point, the demand is rarely for specific solutions, but rather for a general mechanistic, regulatory solution.
Academic text (1994) -
For many decades, computers had a clear cultural identity as linear, logical, mechanistic machines.
Academic text (1997) -
A great argument for the mechanistic approach is that it is systematic and orderly.
Academic text (1994) -
Science can interfere with a coherent broader meaning if it is taken in a strictly mechanistic sense.
Academic text (1993) -
They had these mechanistic attempts at explanations which were not the real far reaching principle that the that Einstein came to.
Synonyms
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3.9
Moving or acting like a machine without feeling
Relating to the idea that everything is made of matter and follows natural laws
Antonyms
How Mechanistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
mechanistic = mechanism (semi-transparent) = mechan + istic
The adjective is clearly built from the idea of a 'mechanism' using the adjective-forming suffix '-istic', but the evaluative/analytical nuance ('explaining things like machines') may not be fully predictable to all learners.
Etymology
The word mechanistic comes from the root mechan-, the same root in machine and mechanic, from an old Greek word meaning 'device' or 'engine'. So a mechanistic view sees people or nature 'like a machine', explaining them only by physical parts and simple processes.