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mechanical causality

mechanical causality

a construct that explains the causes of things and events, including behaviors, in terms of the causal relations among the parts of a machine. Such an explanation will nearly always be one of linear causation. Mechanical causality is a type of hard determinism. See mechanistic theory.

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