Sentence examples for mechanical philosophy that from inspiring English sources

Newton, however, regarded them as a modification of the mechanical philosophy that rendered it subject to exact mathematical treatment.

He advocated a "mechanical philosophy" that saw the universe as a huge machine or clock in which all natural phenomena were accountable purely by mechanical, clockwork motion.

This was part of a larger transition in world views (the rise of the mechanical philosophy) that continued into the 17th century, as the traditional metaphor of nature as organism was replaced by the nature as machine metaphor.

The adherents of the mechanical philosophy held that all material phenomena can be explained by matter in motion and the impact of one body on another.

For another, he espouses a form of the mechanical philosophy, albeit one that departs from orthodoxy (as pronounced by Gassendi) in that God plays a significant and sustained role in determining the course of natural phenomena.

Now, to be sure, Hume is aware that Newton decisively refuted the Mechanical Philosophy's program which insisted that explanations be cast in terms of the impact of colliding bodies (section 4.2).

As for Newton, some deny that he accepted the mechanical philosophy (Janiak 2008), but others argue that if properly characterized, Newton should be understood as a mechanist (Machamer, McGuire, & Kochiras 2012).

The materialism of the mechanical philosophy is the further view that this nature consists of matter in motion, and in particular that psychic phenomena can be reduced to matter in motion.

Hume acknowledges that the mechanical philosophy could offer some successful explanations.

Here, then, More fully accepts the precepts of the mechanical philosophy, but he refuses to accept that Cartesianism can account for all phenomena.

On the whole, the vortex theory offered the natural philosopher a highly intuitive model of celestial phenomena that was compatible with the mechanical philosophy.