robotism

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robotism

the use of automated machinery or manlike mechanical devices to perform tasks. — robotistic, adj.
See also: Automation
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Technological Determinism spotlights connection, figure, efficient cause, logic, pushes aside awareness of ground, formal cause, analogic reasoning (and empiricism), retrieves determinism, robotism, coercion, and, if driven to an extreme, flips into paranoia, denial.
It becomes a form of robotism." (102) When confronted,
In contrast to the computerized robotism of astronomy today, everything about Pluto's discovery was fallible, painstaking, whimsical--human.
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