Sentences with phrase «purely mechanistic»

The easiest way to do the new style performance appraisal will be to link any pay progression to the outcome of the performance appraisal process in a purely mechanistic way.

Therefore, my curiosity is pretty well satisfied by a purely mechanistic answer to my question.

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.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

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Experimental studies of a purely phenomenological nature, with no theoretical or mechanistic underpinning, are not appropriate for publication in BJ.