Sentences with phrase «mechanistic terms»

Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of scientists have accepted the Kantian dualism, although their work is not now, as Kant thought, to interpret nature in mechanistic terms.

All the examples I have given of self - organization in biology are explained by biologists in strictly mechanistic terms, complex though these mechanisms usually are.

I moved here six years ago because biomedical research had allowed us to think about disease in very mechanistic terms and the rationality of the design of medications to treat diseases.

His best work is expressed in geometric, even mechanistic terms, but integrated into a balance and counterpoint that is organic and intuitive.

Moreover, as far as existence in the world was concerned, only the human mind was real; so - called physical nature, including the human body, were seen in mechanistic terms or as appendages, extensions of the mind.

Quantum theory was driven into extreme paradoxes when it tried to explain itself in mechanistic terms.

Science should, and indeed does, talk about a real natural world, but we are arguing that the assumption that it is best described as matter, and in mechanistic terms, is incorrect.

Also, any event in nature, that is not explicable in mechanistic terms, is clearly supernatural.

Neuroscientists usually explain color illusions in mechanistic terms: They arise because of the way cells in the retina and the brain respond to certain wavelengths of light.

Disagreement with «the consensus» is not explained as the expression of a rational engagement with the issues, but in mechanistic terms.