“The young Lord of Glenvarloch!” said the old mechanist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

Our Platonic, mechanist prejudice is that it must be; but why?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on Artificial Intelligence] Reference

These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

According to the mechanist, the world is, as it would now be expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dualism] Reference

So never did any human mechanist who at length had succeeded in the dream and toil of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Woodger saw the issues in the mechanist-vitalist debate as more complex than either side admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life] Reference

Mach was a naturalist and a monist, as well as an anti-materialist in the sense of being an anti-mechanist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernst Mach] Reference

This is the future that Lovecraft's mechanist materialism sees coming, inevitably, fatally, and inescapably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

With both these writers there is the common assumption that the mechanist assumes there is a physical and chemical explanation of all phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

In short, Joshi just can't take the contradiction between Lovecraft's "mechanist materialism" and the heroic, almost salvific, narrative of the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

The product of the creative mind is not a mere combination, but a creation in a sense that no behaviorist or mechanist can admit and remain true to his theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobbes and Ryle, Kant and Sri Aurobindo] Reference

Without HPL's craft -- and yes, without his "mechanist materialism" and his psychosomatic fish allergies -- he could not have revealed Cthulhu to us in just that form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

Now the mechanist, the hero of the story, the "Artist of the Beautiful," is described throughout as animated with the feelings proper to the artist, not to the mechanician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

I have no preference between mechanist and mechanician.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

Gascoigne and the head mechanist stared up into the flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

“Kill the borders, Bert,” said the head mechanist, loudly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

“Shut your — face,” suggested the head mechanist, unprintably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

Gascoigne and the mechanist instantly flew into the most violent of rages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

Anticipation ran high, and the arrival of the famous mechanist was eagerly awaited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel Notes] Reference

The head mechanist and Ted Gascoigne were down below on the stage, having an argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

Bernard Budiensky mentioned three names for people in our field: mechaniker, mechanist, and mechanician.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

Government has entered into a contract with Mr Grubb, the scientific and very able mechanist of the Bank of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist Volume 1, No. 3] Reference

“Just as I turned away to go down the dressing-room passage, Alfred Meyer and the head mechanist came down.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

Ted Gascoigne raved at the poor swine for about ten minutes, and Fred — the head mechanist — nearly ate him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

The first operation of Mr. Sheridan towards it was to order the mechanist of the theatre to get ready two fleets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference

And what does a successful career woman do when her heart is split between a successful business tycoon and poor air-condition mechanist?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Mason took them along to the stage-door, pointed out Gascoigne, who was in heated argument with the head mechanist, and left them to make themselves known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]

A mechanist was then sent to the north, to procure a collection of new machinery; and, after extraordinary delays and difficulties, he embarked with it at New York in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

Nor can the teleologist be asked to indicate the end of every activity any more than the mechanist can be required to indicate the efficient cause of every phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Incredible as it may seem, the Delaware was wrecked off Cayo-Alcatraces, and for the third time the machinery was lost, the mechanist saving himself with great difficulty!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

Professor Moore is not a bald mechanist or materialist like Professor Loeb, or Ernst Haeckel, nor is he an idealist or spiritualist, like Henri Bergson or Sir Oliver Lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

“We’ve flied the mast,” said the mechanist, “and it’s too long for this stage, see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Murder]