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n. Philosophy One who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.

n. A person who takes a mechanical view

n. A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

n. A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

n. One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

n. A maker of machines, or one skilled in machinery or in mechanical work; a mechanician.

n. One of a school of philosophers who refer all the changes in the universe to the effect of merely mechanical forces.

n. a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism

"Either way, my own amateur suspicion is that something closer to a Russelian monistic view of nature and mind is going to become more popular, while the mechanist/materialist view is going to be quietly brushed aside."

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