mechanistic Definition
mecha·nis·tic (mek′ə nis′tik)
adjective
- of or in accordance with the theory of mechanism
- of mechanics or mechanical concepts
mechanistic Related Forms
mech′a·nis′·ti·cally adverb
mechanistic Synonyms
mechanistic
modif.
mechanistic Usage Examples
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.
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