Sentence examples for mechanical explanation from inspiring English sources

Neither a special mechanism nor a mechanical explanation has been provided for this pathological process up to now.

No mechanical explanation was found.

But Appier, at least, offered a mechanical explanation for what might have gone wrong.

But that rather mechanical explanation does not capture the magnitude of the political earthquakes under way.

Closer examination of 19th-century physics shows that Newtonian ideas were already being undermined in many areas and that the program of mechanical explanation was openly challenged by several influential physicists toward the end of the century.

His own theory, published in 1690 in his Discours de la cause de la pesanteur ("Discourse on the Cause of Gravity"), though dating at least to 1669, included a mechanical explanation of gravity based on Cartesian vortices.

Sceptical of mechanical explanations, Mr Paxton throughout stresses the role of luck and human choice.

In it he again showed his need for ultimate mechanical explanations in his discussion of the nature of light.

Believing in mechanical explanations of everything, he discovers the ignoble origins of our spiritual aspirations, shrouded in "Vapours ascending from the lower Faculties".

Like Borges in "The Library of Babel", Millhauser is ultimately investigating the mystery of fiction itself: "One school of thought maintains that the wonders of the Barnum Museum deliberately invite mechanical explanations that appear satisfactory without quite satisfying".

But his beautiful explanations of reflection and refraction far superior to those of Newton were entirely independent of mechanical explanations, being based solely on the so-called Huygens' principle of secondary wave fronts.