mechanisms
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In psychology, the behaviorists and mechanists refuse to worry about what the human mind really is, study it as a series of behavior patterns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mechanists are so busy with the machines that they can't see that the gods that they think are their opposites are really just picking up the other half of the culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we follow the lead of our logical, scientific faculties, then, we shall all be mechanists and materialists.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
But poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and mechanists on another plea.
From English literary criticism by Various
Sometimes thou drawest up an army of scene-painters, mechanists, dancers, monsters, dwarfs, devils, fire-works, and water-spouts, in terrible array against common sense.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various
