The phrase "mechanical view" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a perspective or way of thinking that is characterized by a strict adherence to rules and processes, often without consideration for creativity or individuality. Example: The management team's mechanical view of productivity led to rigid standards and strict deadlines, stifling the employees' ability to think outside the box.
This extreme mechanical view can be depressing.
But the mechanical view is comforting, too.
Ofsted has a much narrower focus, a more "mechanical" view of what makes a good teacher.
The "mechanical" view of congressional politics originated in the ideas of Newton, while a more sophisticated presidential politics reflected the adaptive, evolutionary system of Darwin.
Wright has, for the purposes of his book, tied himself to a mechanical view of the constraints that operate on the human mind — the same one that he has posited in previous books, rooted in the doctrines of evolutionary psychology.
He bristles, for instance, at the cosmologist Lawrence Krauss's claim that "philosophy hasn't progressed in 2,000 years," and wonders why popular writing on cosmology relies on words like "beautiful" and "dazzling" to describe an otherwise cold, mechanical view of the universe.
Like other Dutch painters, van der Heyden experimented with lenses and other mechanical viewing devices in his quest for verisimilitude.
Devotional songs and statements, however, persistently deny all mechanical views of divine exchanges, insisting that humans have nothing to give, that everything belongs to God, and that no truly religious action should ever be performed instrumentally.
But Scandinavian art was the focus of his bequest; examples include C. W. Eckersberg's tight, almost mechanical views of harbors in Copenhagen, as well as more sensitive portraits of grizzled fishermen and precocious toddlers by a fellow Dane, Christen Kobke.
Lichtenstein uses a "mechanical viewing device" to present his depiction of technically aided vision.
Similarly, Sir James Jeans, the great thermodynamicist, astronomer, and popularizer of scientific thought, was drawn toward a non-mechanical view of reality: " The universe," he observed, "begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine".
