Sentences with phrase «as mechanistic»

In her paper Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate on Terrestrial Biota2 Parmesan wrote, «Here, evidence is brought forward that extreme weather events can be implicated as mechanistic drivers of broad ecological responses to climatic trends.

The current climate paradigm is as linear and as mechanistic as that pool table.

Otherwise your efforts can come off as mechanistic or uninspired, and you'll eventually burn out.

As the mechanistic studies suggest that ER - α and Notch are central in mediating the unfavourable hypoxic CSC response in ER - α — positive breast cancer, they may offer an attractive combination treatment approach, which would consist of ER - α or Notch inhibitors combined with antiangiogenic drugs.

Whitehead Institute scientists have at last answered the long - standing question of how the growth - regulating pathway known as mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) detects the presence of the amino acid leucine — itself a key player in modulating muscle growth, appetite, and insulin secretion.

Avatars often have automaton - like, robotic characteristics such as mechanistic inertness, rigidity and a lack of emotion and warmth.

It is instructive in this regard to cite Bergson's letter to C. Lloyd Morgan of November 21, 1912, expressing his belief that science did not have to remain as mechanistic as it was in their time.21

On the other hand it presented the case for the modern worldview as mechanistic and bound inevitably to progress on the wings of science.

The dominant image of the local church, the one that gives Reed's and Evans's findings much of their coherence and argument, is that of the congregation as a mechanistic field of traceable forces.

Finally, insofar as a mechanistic understanding of nature and a pragmatic conception of truth are the correlates of the abstract individual and the liberal notion of freedom as power, even a Newtonian understanding of nature, reason, and freedom will eventually destroy the foundations for the rationality of natural law, as reason is reduced to the calculation of forces and law becomes an extrinsic imposition.

What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen as mechanistic by man.

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It can not be explained in mechanistic or more broadly deterministic terms as the outcome of the causality of the past.

(4) Descriptions of evolutionary mechanisms also share in the mechanistic and materialistic biases of science — which easily becomes translated into materialism as a world view.

Being mechanistic, modern science is also historicist: It argues that a complete description of the efficient and material causal history of an entity is a complete explanation of the entity itself» in other words, that an understanding of how something came to be is the same as understanding what it is.

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

It is, as George Herbert Mead has said, a way of «taking time seriously «17 to the point that no definable space in the mechanistic sense can be designated, or fixed, except as a supposition for purposes which require one to arrest the process, which is to assume that time does not matter or that it does not exist.

Instead of a mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.

This abandonment of the intellectual task of understanding the world is as detrimental to society as was the mechanistic view that it partly replaced.

When human beings, or some human beings, are treated as part of this mechanistic world, they are terribly exploited.

A mechanistic view of nature presupposed causes as necessary relations.

Corpuscular societies consisting of low — level occasions, such as rocks and billiard balls, display little originality, thereby providing ideal instances of efficient causality for mechanistic science.

On the other hand, areas of research such as biology and psychology are subjected to a mechanistic interpretation which tends to deprive them of their specificity as sciences.

On the one hand, certain zones of experience are viewed as impermeable to mechanistic explanation (poetry or religious inspiration, for example) and are thus simply excluded from relevance.

Rolston laments that many influenced by the mechanistic worldview of industrial civilizations think of nonhuman nature as something devoid of value until assigned importance by human beings.

As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,» what the founders may have meant is less significant than what they actually gave us and how that gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and mechanistic assumptions about God and nature.

I did not understand him to be equating Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees as certain mystifications in the former as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.

The individualistic, mechanistic understanding of psychology we can now see as flawed; our freedom is more socially or politically or Historically conditioned than our Founders thought.

He rejects metaphysical idealism which denies the validity of the material aspects of reality, just as he rejects dialectical materialism in its totally mechanistic form, as it denies the spiritual aspects of reality.

As opposed to ID / creationism, there is mechanistic evidence supporting plausible routes for abiogenesis.

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

There is now a growing realization that science, as such, does not require a mechanistic worldview.

The mechanistic view conceived of reality as consisting in the least common denominator — a non-living, non-valuing and non-mental particle.

An over-arching reason for experimenting with process philosophy as a contribution to feminist construction of a new view of relations is that it provides a cosmology radically different from dominant mechanistic and patriarchal world views.

When matter is regarded as extensity, the mechanistic model fails.

(11) The mechanistic metaphor causes Westerners to regard cultures that live on the basis of organic metaphors as «ignorant and confused.»

In the dominant mechanistic view, the information stored in a DNA molecule was seen as totally determinative of the future development of the organism.

In a molecule, the degree of self - creation and self - determination may be quite rudimentary, even negligible; a mechanistic molecular biologist might argue that this can be explained (away) as the defective working of totally deterministic systems.

Indeed, as Harvey Sindima's essay in this book attests, mechanistic views have contributed to the threatened destruction of the earth not only in the West but also in Africa.

Newton's system of the universe, as it has been handed down to us, is atomistic and mechanistic.

It was Descartes who later transformed the notion of circulation into a mechanical system of pumps and pipes and used it as a cornerstone for his mechanistic philosophy.

The conception of organism as fundamental for nature involves a radical break with a mechanistic or substance concept of nature.

He was not beholden at all to the mechanistic tradition of early Greek writers such as Democritus.

Or, as Merchant (1980) puts it: «As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105as Merchant (1980) puts it: «As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105As the sixteenth - century organic cosmos was transformed into the seventeenth century mechanistic universe, its life and vitality were sacrificed for a world filled with dead and passive matter» (p. 105).

As a biologist who was presented with a mechanistic, substance image of reality, the author found that process theology lifted the richness of human experience to a level that gave him a new perspective of care for all creation.

But this next chapter will make no sense at all unless we have grasped the distinction between the world as it appears on the one hand outwardly and as revealed by mechanistic science, and on the other hand the world that is hidden beneath appearances but is as real.

The processes of nature are regarded by the mechanistic view as being a relation of cause and effect, which is a relation of equivalence, energy and momentum remaining constant; causality implies quantitative equivalence.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

In the conception of the physical as «acting,» on the other hand, change of other kinds in addition to locomotive change are admitted, so that a mechanistic analysis must accordingly be only of an aspect of physical acting, which means that since it leaves out of account other aspects or features of change or motion, it is an abstraction.

In terms of the physical as «matter,» the biological entities could, however, not be fundamentally different in nature from their material constituents; that is, biological entities are intelligible purely in terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic terms.

Needless to say our more mechanistic colleagues regarded these as somewhat aberrant, if not bizarre, activities!