Sentence examples for mere mechanism from inspiring English sources

Souls were given by God and unique to humans; the remainder of the living world was mere mechanism.

The recording industry, Lessig argues, successfully presented Napster to the courts as a mere mechanism for thievery.

The right to call itself art rather than mere mechanism had been photography's struggle since the medium was invented, but now practitioners had to differentiate their efforts from the unstudied shutter-­clicks of rank amateurs.

Hartley's critics accuse him of reducing the human being to a "mere mechanism".

The One Ring, Tolkien has said, is a mere mechanism that "sets the clock ticking fast".

For Banville, this is the crucial stuff, and mere mechanisms such as plot are less compelling.

The forest is turned into a diagram; animals become mere mechanisms; nature's workings become clever graphs".

While the Orientalist historians were charmed by these bloody ceremonies, finding them both picturesque and distinctively Persian, Kasravi saw them as mere mechanisms for despotic control.

The redesign of GOV.UK and other "exemplar services" were mere mechanisms that could be used to gain momentum to get buy-in for the bigger picture.

Systems that produce emergent properties are mere mechanisms, but the mechanisms are very complex (they have very many independently interacting parts).

Descartes maintained this distinction by positing a substance dualism of mind and body (and by treating animals as "mere" mechanisms, without consciousness, and humans as rational, sentient beings), and such as Hume and later James Mill respected it (or at least avoided dealing with it) by writing about the contents of conscious minds while keeping well clear of neurophysiology.