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单词 mechanistic
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Definition of mechanistic in English:

mechanistic

adjective mɛkəˈnɪstɪkˌmɛkəˈnɪstɪk
  • 1Relating to theories which explain phenomena in purely physical or deterministic terms.

    (与)机械论(有关)的

    a mechanistic interpretation of nature

    对自然的机械论解释。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Until recently, this mechanistic view of nature and human beings has held sway.
    • Many of the most accepted theories in the social sciences encourage a mechanistic view of human nature.
    • Malik seems to recognise this threat when he argues that the attempt to understand human beings in mechanistic terms is motivated by an anti-humanism.
    • Perhaps you think I don't accept this idea and instead think in some literal mechanistic way?
    • Both sides assume an essentially deterministic, mechanistic view of nature.
    • It demands an approach that is the negation of purely mechanistic materialism.
    • Human behavior is to be explained in terms of mechanistic causes, just as the behavior of all natural phenomena are to be explained.
    • He believed in atomism and defended a mechanistic explanation of nature.
    • Allen particularly drew attention to the mechanistic materialism that underlay these conceptions.
    • The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics.
    • Second, the integration of living beings into the new natural philosophy of mechanistic naturalism was left unresolved.
    • Behaviorism is an example of a theory that is founded on a mechanistic paradigm.
    • There is no morality in the mechanistic world, and no freedom, as human beings cannot act otherwise to their nature.
    • Three mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain those relationships.
    • This reductionist or mechanistic view of patients is no longer satisfactory.
    • The idea of a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, and thus causal determinism, is out of date.
    • There certainly appears to be a tension between a mechanistic philosophy and a humanistic outlook.
    • His work in chemistry was aimed at establishing it as a mathematical science based on a mechanistic theory of matter.
    • Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism and its thesis that life emerges from a complex combination of organic matter.
    • The mechanistic basis of these phenomena is not understood.
    1. 1.1 Determined by physical processes alone.
      机械性的
      he insisted that animals were entirely mechanistic

      他坚持认为动物完全是机械性的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They do not accept that the biological world is governed by mechanistic processes determined by laws of nature.
      • Science, Gray suggests, reveals that 'humans cannot be other than irrational', but science itself is a product of our poor, irrational, mechanistic minds.
      • If humans are mechanistic beings, it becomes harder to understand why they should not be used as means to an end or why there should be much concern with what they are thinking or feeling.
      • I believe that physicians and patients may be responding to how mechanistic the practice of medicine has become.
      • Schlemmer thought that the essential inner vision and unity with nature could only be achieved through simplification and in both painting and sculpture reduced the human figure to mechanistic manikins of extreme formality.

Derivatives

  • mechanistically

  • adverb
    • Comics were the products of mechanistic, capitalist production, he argued, and could therefore affect children's minds mechanistically.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One of my objections to the hypothesis has been that it's hard to rationalize, mechanistically.
      • So there's no evidence, mechanistically, on either side of the hypothesis.
      • This may be so even though they may differ mechanistically.
      • In truth, Labour saw education mechanistically - either as an engine of productivity or an engine of social justice.

Definition of mechanistic in US English:

mechanistic

adjectiveˌmekəˈnistikˌmɛkəˈnɪstɪk
  • 1Relating to theories which explain phenomena in purely physical or deterministic terms.

    (与)机械论(有关)的

    a mechanistic interpretation of nature

    对自然的机械论解释。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The idea of a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, and thus causal determinism, is out of date.
    • Three mechanistic hypotheses have been proposed to explain those relationships.
    • Both sides assume an essentially deterministic, mechanistic view of nature.
    • Allen particularly drew attention to the mechanistic materialism that underlay these conceptions.
    • It demands an approach that is the negation of purely mechanistic materialism.
    • Human behavior is to be explained in terms of mechanistic causes, just as the behavior of all natural phenomena are to be explained.
    • The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics.
    • Malik seems to recognise this threat when he argues that the attempt to understand human beings in mechanistic terms is motivated by an anti-humanism.
    • Behaviorism is an example of a theory that is founded on a mechanistic paradigm.
    • The mechanistic basis of these phenomena is not understood.
    • There is no morality in the mechanistic world, and no freedom, as human beings cannot act otherwise to their nature.
    • Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism and its thesis that life emerges from a complex combination of organic matter.
    • His work in chemistry was aimed at establishing it as a mathematical science based on a mechanistic theory of matter.
    • Many of the most accepted theories in the social sciences encourage a mechanistic view of human nature.
    • He believed in atomism and defended a mechanistic explanation of nature.
    • Until recently, this mechanistic view of nature and human beings has held sway.
    • This reductionist or mechanistic view of patients is no longer satisfactory.
    • Second, the integration of living beings into the new natural philosophy of mechanistic naturalism was left unresolved.
    • Perhaps you think I don't accept this idea and instead think in some literal mechanistic way?
    • There certainly appears to be a tension between a mechanistic philosophy and a humanistic outlook.
    1. 1.1 Determined by physical processes alone.
      机械性的
      he insisted that animals were entirely mechanistic

      他坚持认为动物完全是机械性的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Schlemmer thought that the essential inner vision and unity with nature could only be achieved through simplification and in both painting and sculpture reduced the human figure to mechanistic manikins of extreme formality.
      • Science, Gray suggests, reveals that 'humans cannot be other than irrational', but science itself is a product of our poor, irrational, mechanistic minds.
      • They do not accept that the biological world is governed by mechanistic processes determined by laws of nature.
      • I believe that physicians and patients may be responding to how mechanistic the practice of medicine has become.
      • If humans are mechanistic beings, it becomes harder to understand why they should not be used as means to an end or why there should be much concern with what they are thinking or feeling.
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