mechanical philosophy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmechanicalandphilosophy
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mechanical
adjective
uk/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/us/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/
operated by a machine, or connected with machines or ...
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philosophy
noun
uk/fɪˈlɒs.ə.fi/us/fɪˈlɑː.sə.fi/
the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of the real world and existence, the use and limits of knowledge, and the principles of ...
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Historians have too often assumed that the "mechanicalphilosophy" was obviously progressive and so self-evidently defined.
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It is useful to consider the troubles ofmechanicalphilosophyin terms of social geography.
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Here it was argued that machine philosophy and spirit philosophy could not reach the status of themechanicalphilosophy.
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Themechanicalphilosophydid not provide an adequate explanation for the chemical phenomena.
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The "mechanicalphilosophy" has emerged here as a locally constructed discipline.
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The metaphysics of themechanicalphilosophyconstrained the kinds of entities and principles allowable in biological explanations.
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It was in this polemical context that the meaning of themechanicalphilosophywas estabished and contested.
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Themechanicalphilosophywas principally celebrated as a manner of talking about the right forms of inquiry into the world and the means of regimenting that inquiry.
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This examination shows that the term 'mechanicalphilosophy' was a category given its meanings within local contexts and carries no universal sense separate from that accomplished by these natural philosophers.
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Boyle's use of themechanicalphilosophyfor chemistry has been a contentious issue.
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There are three important challenges to the assumption that a monolithicmechanicalphilosophyaccurately represents the practical life and theoretical labor of the natural philosophers of the late seventeenth century.
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Descartes espousedmechanicalphilosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular in the 17th century.
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Themechanicalphilosophyof the 17th century sought to explain life as a system of parts that operate or interact like those of a machine.
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He adhered to the tenets of themechanicalphilosophyof his time.
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Inmechanicalphilosophyno field or action at a distance is permitted, particles or corpuscles of matter are fundamentally inert.
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Following atomism, themechanicalphilosophyof the 17th century posited that all forces could be ultimately reduced to contact forces between the atoms, then imagined as tiny solid particles.
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The growing importance of natural theology, partly a response to the rise ofmechanicalphilosophy, encouraged the growth of natural history (although it entrenched the argument from design).
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