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mechanist
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mech·a·nist  (mk-nst)
n. Philosophy
One who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.

mechanist [ˈmɛkənɪst]
n
1. (Philosophy) a person who accepts a mechanistic philosophy
2. (Business / Professions) (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) another name for a mechanician
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mechanist - a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism
philosopher - a specialist in philosophy


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Although it is not easy to categorize the papers, familiar themes and issues are well presented: the problem of the comprehensibility of alchemical language, the nature of laboratory practice, debates between Paracelsians and both Galenists and mechanists, the difficulty of uncloaking alchemical charlatans and fraud, and the challenges of textual exegesis.
Mechanists have embraced cybernetic technologies, prosthetics, software-brain manipulations, plug-ins, hardware gear, and neuromechanical enhancements as a means to obtaining amplified talents and gratifications.
In my view, as a quantum physicist, the burden of proof ought to be reversed: it is not the advocates of a more holistic point of view who should be obliged to convince those who argue for an analytical/mechanistic approach of the necessity of additional structures of relationships; on the contrary, the mechanists ought to explain why the more complex structure of relationships that undoubtedly exists at the foundations, and is well-known to us from physics, should remain so totally invisible.
 
 
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