| The idea of a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, and thus causal determinism, is out of date. |
| But he mistrusted Marxist economics which he saw as a mechanistic and limiting view of the human story. |
| Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic. |
| Competition also provides a mechanistic basis for understanding asymmetries and negative covariation in the sizes of different structures. |
| This reductionist or mechanistic view of patients is no longer satisfactory. |
| Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
