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mechanistic, a.|mɛkəˈnɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or connected with mechanics or mechanism. Also, pertaining to or holding mechanical theories in biology, philosophy, psychology, or linguistics.
1884Nature 21 Aug. 383/1 The series of curves of velocity given for different mechanistic combinations. 1893J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Athenæum 16 Sept. 375/2 The mechanistic view of the phenomena of life. 1904Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 16/3 The mechanistic school. 1915B. Holmes in Chicago Med. Recorder Mar. 2 (heading) The Mechanistic view of Dementia Precox. 1923W. McDougall Outl. Psychol. i. 30 All the varieties of psychology which propose..to replace the hypothesis of a mind, a soul, a self, [etc.].., by that of a brain or a bodily organism working on strictly mechanical or physical principles..may be conveniently classed together as mechanistic psychologies. 1924W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 278 On the negative side they have adduced evidence of a kind which makes a merely mechanistic explanation of the universe impossible. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. 33 The materialistic (or, better, mechanistic) theory supposes that the variability of human conduct, including speech, is due only to the fact that the human body is a very complex system. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 301 The Government's revenue would be so great that extinction of the debt would be automatic. This ‘mechanistic’ theory was severely ridiculed. 1952J. Drever Dict. Psychol. 163 Mechanistic theory,..the interpretation of psychological processes on a mechanical basis, and denial of the reality or efficacy of ends and purposes. 1963Marx & Hillix Syst. & Theories Psychol. ii. ix. 203 One man, Gustav Fechner, seems to have shared the mechanistic-romantic conflict with Freud. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Mechanistic theory,..an approach to language and linguistics based on objective methodology in recording and classifying language phenomena. 1967R. A. Waldron Sense & Sense Devel. ix. 201 The rather more austere and mechanistic tendency of twentieth-century linguistics has given such phraseology a quaint, old-fashioned air. 1968M. Bunge in Lakatos & Musgrave Probl. Philos. Sci. 128 The first approach can be called phenomenological or global, the second mechanistic or atomistic. |
