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Noun Concept
Categories: Naturalism (philosophy), Materialism, Cognitive science, 17th century in science, Philosophical analogies
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mechanism  anthropic mechanism  Gödelian argument  Gödelian arguments  Mechanical materialism  mechanistic
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes WordNet 3.0
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes are similar to complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. Wikipedia
A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes Wikipedia Disambiguation
The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes. Wiktionary
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philosophical doctrine
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anthropic mechanism, Gödelian argument, Gödelian arguments, Mechanical materialism, mechanical philosophy, mechanicism, mechanistic, mechanistic materialism, Mechanistic philosophy, universal mechanism

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