Let me be the first one to proclaim to astophysicists and quantum mechanists and psychologists and sociologists and everyone in between that the universe, on all levels at any scale, is infinitely complex. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Although at war with mechanists and any philosopher who accepted active matter, Clarke was not a full-blown occasionalist. ❋ Vailati, Ezio (2009)
The economic spirit of a people cannot be manipulated in as simple-minded a fashion as the Keynesian mechanists imagine. ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)
For although most early modern mechanists programmatically tried to substitute a nature made of inert particles for the living nature of Renaissance philosophy, the attempt soon ran into great difficulties. ❋ Vailati, Ezio (2009)
From there coupled with the Copernican revolution and the advent of Newtonian mechanists that followed, it might have seemed a slam dunk for the atelic worldview, at least to the educationed masses. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But his greatest coup was in convincing his old pal Billy Robinson, one of the most brilliant magic mechanists, to design a Spiritualist parlor that would put the common garden-variety phony mediums to shame. ❋ William Kalush (2006)
Life humanity, esp., according to the old myths, was given the earth to remake, life was not itself seen to be a mere remaking of matter via clever mechanists. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Whereas some of the “mechanists” defended the first view, Newton appears to be allied with the second tradition. ❋ Janiak, Andrew (2006)
If it does, reductionists can challenge mechanists on this assumption. ❋ Bickle, John (2006)
And they can be modeled by a spring mass system that we call the spring mass system because we're bio mechanists, it's actually a pogo stick. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Yet it was flatly incompatible with physics as Leibniz himself, and the other “mechanists,” actually conceived it. ❋ DiSalle, Robert (2002)
Charles Bonnet another, were the avowed mechanists of their day. ❋ BENTLEY GLASS (1968)
Hobbes, therefore, can properly be regarded as the father of mechanistic theories in psychology rather than of behaviorism; for not all behaviorists were mechanists, and Hobbes him - self relied on introspection in the psychological sphere. ❋ R. S. PETERS (1968)
For an action is not simply a series of bodily movements; such movements as are necessary to it are done for the sake of something, as Aristotle pointed out in his criticism of the mechanists of the ancient world. ❋ R. S. PETERS (1968)
When, however, we turn to Aristotle's Metaphysics and De anima, and study the conceptual scheme which he thought appropriate for describing and explaining human behavior, we find not just that his doctrine of form and matter was incompatible with the materi - alism espoused by many behaviorists but that, in his psychology, he was an explicit critic of the mechanists of his day. ❋ R. S. PETERS (1968)
For here too we find behavior studied objectively, an exaltation of purpose as the most important explanatory concept, and a vehement attack on the mechanists of his day, namely J.B. Watson and the reflexologists. ❋ R. S. PETERS (1968)
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)
