Sentence examples for mechanistic view from inspiring English sources

Yellen disputed this mechanistic view.

Both orthodoxies take a constricted, mechanistic view of the situation.

This rumor was a fitting one, since Descartes argued for a thoroughly mechanistic view of nature.

This seems to have been a gibe at the mechanistic view of nature which his philosophical works sought to underpin.

It encourages us to take a mechanistic view of that transaction: put in this nutrient; get out that physiological result.

That era's linear, mechanistic view of the world has slowly been supplanted by a networked one.

Clearly influenced by Taoism, Alexander unabashedly uses words like "wholeness"and complains of the prevailing Cartesian "mechanistic" view of the universe.

Ellen Moers, in her fine 1969 study "Two Dreisers," has detailed Dreiser's friendship with the physiologist Jacques Loeb, who held a mechanistic view of human behavior.

In this mechanistic view, much of our behavior is determined by instinct — for instance, Clyde's thoughtless escape from the accident in Kansas City.

Mr Letwin claims that Labour takes a "mechanistic" view: if you are poor you will turn to crime.

But this mechanistic view of growth assumes that demography is destiny and that economic policies do not matter.