Mechanism (philosophy)
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Mechanism (philosophy)
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Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes are similar to complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different varieties. They are both doctrines of metaphysics, but they are different in scope and ambitions: the first is a global doctrine about nature; the second is a local doctrine about humans and their minds, which is hotly contested. For clarity, we might distinguish these two d
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Belief that natural wholes are composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)
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2013-04-16T10:01:52Z
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2024-09-02T09:50:20Z
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