Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker of machines, or one skilled in machinery or in mechanical work; a mechanician.
- noun One of a school of philosophers who refer all the changes in the universe to the effect of merely mechanical forces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.
- noun One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who takes a
mechanical view - noun archaic A maker of
machines ; one skilled inmechanics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Against Darwinism 2009
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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.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-04-01 John 2010
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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.
Take a Step above the Rest in Earth Thatsnews 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-01-01 Thatsnews 2009
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Mach was a naturalist and a monist, as well as an anti-materialist in the sense of being an anti-mechanist.
Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009
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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.
Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009
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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.
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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).
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Woodger saw the issues in the mechanist-vitalist debate as more complex than either side admitted.
Life Weber, Bruce 2008
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