Sentence examples for scientific materialistic from inspiring English sources

These two Planned Parenthood staff members seem to have a scientific, materialistic attitude toward fetal tissue.

It is impossible to resist pointing out that the apparent decline in children's willingness to make widespread mentalistic attributions from 1929 to 1992 may reflect the increasing cultural ascendancy of scientific and materialistic modes of thought over that some time span.

Material monism, the metaphysics of science, asserts the pre-eminence of matter -- and dominates in our scientific and materialistic culture.

(This is a scientific and materialistic view of consciousness and would accord with known physical laws).

Although these papers exhibit a rather unclear mixture of views, they are now remembered primarily for having ushered in the position known as "eliminative materialism", according to which our way of conceiving the mind and mental phenomena amounts to a seriously inadequate theory which is in conflict with a (materialistic) scientific account of those same things.

Accordingly, Hook could suggest that just as the pragmatists like Dewey had moved beyond the Hegelian tradition toward a naturalistic account of mind and of human self-consciousness, so Marxism had moved beyond the idealistic framework of Hegelian thought toward a materialistic and potentially scientific account of historical change as the process of dialectic.

That source is scientific materialism…If we view the predominant materialistic science as a giant tree, our [intelligent design] strategy is intended to function as a 'wedge' that…can split the trunk" (Discovery 1998).

He condemned the scientific trio of Isaac Newton, John Locke and Francis Bacon as sterile and materialistic.

This strictly cause-and-effect materialistic view is the traditional scientific perspective.

Lenin combined the ability to use the materialistic dialectic as a method of scientific orientation in social developments with the deep intuition of the true leader.

ID advocate Stephen Meyer received notoriety when a refereed scientific journal published an article in which he argued that no current materialistic theory of evolution could account for the origin of the information necessary to build the novel animal forms appearing during the Cambrian explosion (Meyer 2004b).