mechanistic

Modifies a noun

• enzymology: Structural analysis also underpins the major research effort in the MIB on mechanistic enzymology.
• worldview: Few scientists, even those with a mechanistic worldview, would deny that human beings possess consciousness or free will.
• materialism: Relativity and quantum mechanics would seem to conjure speculations to fly out from under the wet blanket of mechanistic materialism before our very eyes.
• paradigm: The mechanistic paradigm has failed the reality test in life.
• conception: However, this approach still left unresolved many of the original problems raised by mechanistic conceptions of purposiveness.
• explanation: The results of the Iowa State experiment provide support for multiple mechanistic explanations for hybrid vigor.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: From a purely mechanistic view point our respect for life is a weakness not a strength.
• rather: The concept of gatekeeping tends to be related to rather mechanistic models of communication processes.
• too: I am suggesting that we have tended to be too mechanistic in our outlook upon disease.
• not: Decisions are made based on a judgment of all of the evidence provided and the process is not mechanistic.
• very: I certainly did not want to " do midwifery " which implied something very mechanistic.
• essentially: This is a universal view of causality and determinism where humans are essentially mechanistic, emotionally driven carbon units.

Used with adjective complement

become: First, they prevent us from becoming mechanistic in our thinking about the living inner processes of nature.