mechanistic

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.