The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the 'mechanistic approach'.

Today a few theorists are starting to question the mechanistic approach and model business on biological principles or chaos theory.

His mechanistic approach was extended to the issue of animal consciousness.

They're taking a very mechanistic approach to the whole process.

On the other hand, more mechanistic approaches are advocated by supporters of prepared, systematized reading schemes.

Wiener had seen the horror of the mechanistic approach to the troubles of the mind.

Behavior analysis in child development takes a mechanistic, contextual, and pragmatic approach.

Usual mechanistic approach to problem-solving in schools and the tedious 'it's all the teachers' fault blah.

But starting in the 1920's, the nation adopted basal-reading materials that took a more mechanistic approach to literacy.

By contrast, mechanistic approaches create a mathematical model based on biological principles and then test how well these models fit real data sets.