Sentence examples for mechanistically from inspiring English sources

Locke's picture of bodies, both large and small, is largely a mechanistic one (though he allows for phenomena that can't be explained mechanistically, such as gravitation, cohesion of body parts, and magnetism): bodies, he writes, "knock, impell, and resist one another,…and that is all they can do" (E1-5 IV.x.10: 624).

Since photosynthesis is such a highly conserved, mechanistically complex process, it is unlikely that the ability to carry out photosynthesis could have evolved at different times in so many different organisms.

While many believe that human thinking can be explained mechanistically in physiological terms, scientists themselves have yet to develop concepts adequate for producing machines that can approach the full range of human talent.

For them the stability and function of the channel or medium are more variable and less mechanistically related to the process than they are for followers of Shannon and Weaver and psychologists like Newcomb.

These activities he conceived of naturalistically and almost mechanistically.

"We were forced to investigate mechanistically what we were doing.

Where the earlier film pulsed with precisely calibrated paranoia and distinctly drawn characters, this inarticulate replay unfolds as mechanistically as a video game.

The score's opening pages have a dark, almost Bohemian sound that could nearly fool you into thinking that you were hearing Dvorak or Smetana, were it not for the insistently repeated chord that grows more prominent as the piece moves into more familiar Reichian territory of mechanistically intricate figuration.

And that's what he does: kill, mechanistically.

The films of Phillips and Apatow arrived as an antidote to tired, mechanistically joke-driven comedies, like the reference-packed "Scary Movie" clones.

But while personality as we usually conceive of it is an illusion, it is not the kind of illusion described by mechanistically-minded scientists like Colin Blakemore.