They are non-mechanistic if they refer to some non-causal, non-mechanistic kind of relation (Salmon 1984; Craver 2014).
His forms can suggest a kind of mechanistic ectoplasm, like the slow-motion stuff in lava lamps.
To date, the mechanistic insights into this kind of non-traditional electrochemical interface remain unclear.
All of that's in our heads, and we will get some kind of mechanistic description of that in time".
Fichte was soon to use the paradigm as his basis for resolving Kant's antinomy, by arguing that freedom requires as its counterpart the kind of mechanistic organization that scientific explanation demands.
Knowing the structure of such entities and the changes that they can undergo may provide a kind of mechanistic or process-understanding of biological events that goes beyond causal graphs, which merely express relations of causal relevance between variables (for examples see the next section).
In another unqualified review, Time wrote that the film had "a vitality that makes their efforts fully the equal of the original picture ... Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein".
Tradionally, investigations on genotype-phenotype relationships via statistical analysis have mainly resulted in linear/multilinear predictions, where no kind of mechanistic details or epigenetic phenomena have been possible to be accounted for in an explicit manner.
This kind of mechanistic systems-level and molecular-level understanding surely underpins medical breakthroughs, productivity gains in agricultural commodities and many other diverse applications of biological modelling.
If the authors can establish whether TSLP acts directly on inflammatory or other cell populations to control tumor formation, this would represent the kind of mechanistic advance requisite for eLife.
We call for the mechanists to consider whether the latter approach can be accommodated by the mechanistic approach, and what kinds of modifications it would imply for the mechanistic paradigm of explanation, if it were to address modelling more generally.
