Mechanist

Either way, my own amateur suspicion is that something closer to a Russelian monistic view of nature and mind is going to become more popular, while the mechanist/materialist view is going to be quietly brushed aside. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kiram Kir-Zaki may be considered a mechanist prodigy among his own people, but when he becomes the first Haldiim ever admitted to the prestigious Sagrada Academy, he is thrown into a world where power, superstition and swordplay outweigh even the most scholarly of achievements. ❋ Kristen (2010)

In a recent study undertaken in the US by Katy Santiago, a bio mechanist who founded the Restorative Exercise Institute™, participants took part in the 10,000 steps walking programme; which states that people should aim to record ten thousand steps roughly 4 miles of walking in some form each day. ❋ Thatsnews (2009)

Mach was a naturalist and a monist, as well as an anti-materialist in the sense of being an anti-mechanist. ❋ Pojman, Paul (2009)

Impulse is also fundamental to the corpuscular hypothesis 'explanation of phenomena, being either the exclusive means of interaction among bodies, as adherents of the strict mechanist proviso hold, or the means of at least many interactions. ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

Now, you are quite right that many things that have been considered "supernatural" have become considered "natural" after they've been considered scientific long enough (e.g., action at a distance seems pretty spooky and mystical if you are a mechanist). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Woodger saw the issues in the mechanist-vitalist debate as more complex than either side admitted. ❋ Weber, Bruce (2008)

I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover apposite mottoes, and, in the situation of the theatrical mechanist, who, when the white paper which represented his shower of snow was exhausted, continued the storm by snowing brown, I drew on my memory as long as I could, and when that failed, eked it out with invention. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although, unlike most of his fashionable contemporaries and immediate successors, Descartes was not an atomist, he was, like the others, a mechanist about the properties of matter. ❋ Robinson, Howard (2007)

According to the mechanist, the conscious mind is an epiphenomenon (a notion given general currency by T.H. H.xley (1893)): that is, it is a by-product of the physical system which has no influence back on it. ❋ Robinson, Howard (2007)

Without HPL's craft -- and yes, without his "mechanist materialism" and his psychosomatic fish allergies -- he could not have revealed Cthulhu to us in just that form. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

According to the mechanist, the world is, as it would now be expressed, ❋ Robinson, Howard (2007)

I am somewhat surprised that Joshi doesn't see (and on past form, stridently object to) the hugely obvious negation of "mechanist materialism" in the assumption that mentation and personality (even memory, in Peaslee's case) -- the soul, in other words -- is independent of the physical brain, or even of humanoid brain structure. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

In short, Joshi just can't take the contradiction between Lovecraft's "mechanist materialism" and the heroic, almost salvific, narrative of the story. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

It may seem odd -- heck, it is odd -- that an atheist mechanist like HPL believed he could wring horror out of, essentially, an exciteable travesty of Darwin, but there you have it. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

This is the future that Lovecraft's mechanist materialism sees coming, inevitably, fatally, and inescapably. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

Why is “evolutionist” something that should be said about someone who simply accepts the conclusions of science, when one is not normally called a “relativist” or “quantum mechanist” or some such thing? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Attempting to understand the workings of nature by way of molecular kinetics and the research of the forces driving those motions: electric, magnetic, thermodynamic or otherwise. In [pop-culture]: [Gregory House] of House [M.D]. expresses Mechanist viewpoints. ❋ The Mechanist (2009)