Sentences with phrase «mechanical by analogy»

Not exact matches

It is not by accident that we have chosen a personal interaction and developmental model with certain analogies to the psychotherapeutic relationship, rather than the mechanical models of natural science hitherto aped by historiography in its rush for recognition as a science.

We can only give our imagination a certain delusive help by mechanical analogies.

(The relationship between molecular structure and photon absorption is a quantum mechanical effect with no good commonplace everyday analogy; some have tried to represent this by visuals of springs stretching vs. bending but that's something of a hand - waving explanation.

Such mechanical analogies are not representative of the behavior of internally generated fluctuations in fluid dynamical systems, and this is clearly seen by comparison with externally generated oscillations like the tides.

Because legal problems arise in particular factual contexts, reasoning about the meaning of a legal rule often requires more than the mechanical application of the general words in the text.3 Likewise, when an attorney reasons by analogy, she considers the precise nature of the particular legal problem and context and does not simply compare the surface details of her client's case with a precedent.4