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mechanicalism|mɪˈkænɪkəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. mechanical + -ism.]
a. The philosophic doctrine that all the phenomena of the universe, or some particular class of phenomena indicated by the context, are mechanically caused.
b. ‘Mechanical’ or routine procedure.
So meˈchanicalist, one who favours mechanicalism.
1877T. Sinclair Mount (1878) 71 A mechanicalist would put one's thoughts very quickly into his shape, no doubt. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 3 Aug. 88/2 These two things, mechanicalism and infallibilism, are the great obstacles to any common understanding between religious thinking and scientific thinking. 1903Speaker 30 May 201/2 Others..have lost all touch with human nature, the slaves of an academic mechanicalism. |
