Sentences with phrase «purely mechanical principle»
He sympathetically affirms Polanyi's «ontological gap between the living and non-living», the former exclusively having an «internal finality», and that «the emergence of life can not be accounted for on the basis of purely mechanical principles.»
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In the case of a blind aggregation, some form of unification brought about by purely mechanical means, the principle of large numbers comes into play.