Sentence examples for mechanical conception from inspiring English sources
Harvey was deeply and bitterly opposed to the mechanical philosophy of French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes as well as to any purely mechanical conception of the human body.
(see R. Martinelli, 2011) Despite his critique of psychophysical parallelism, Stumpf advocates, like Spinoza, a form of pantheism that is consistent with his deterministic and mechanical conception of nature.
He did the same during the brief revival of the so-called "vis viva controversy" triggered by du Châtelet's treatise, defending the empirical and mechanical conception of body and force against those who defended Leibniz's more metaphysical conception of the same thing.
One is invited to consider instead the alternative proposed by von Neumann's rationally coherent orthodox quantum mechanical conception.
The attacks made against pre-Enlightenment "magical thinking", and the mystical elements of Christianity, were given their foundation with Boyle's mechanical conception of the Universe.
Robert Boyle in England tried to clear away some of the intellectual underbrush by insisting upon clear descriptions, reproducibility of experiments, and mechanical conceptions of chemical processes.
Fundamental disagreements exist between classical and quantum mechanical conceptions of the chemical bond, and even between different quantum mechanical models.
A common theme in Horn's work was a combination of geometry in conception, mechanical inventiveness in measurement, and "muddy boots" fieldwork in execution, noted an entry in the Princeton emeritus booklet upon Horn's retirement.
The Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC) is used for both municipal and industrial wastewater treatment; however, the RBC has been plagued with mechanical deficiencies since its conception.
Thus, he offered a version of epistemic reduction in line with his conception of mechanical philosophy, which included a mixed reductionist/non-reductionist methodology and concomitant reservations about ontological reduction.
Modern theoretical accounts of chemical bonding are quantum mechanical, but even contemporary conceptions of bonds owe a huge amount to the classical conception of bonds developed by G.N. Lewis at the very beginning of the 20th century.
