Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or relating to teleology, or the doctrine of final causes; pertaining to or of the nature of a design or purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
- adjective showing evidence of design or purpose, especially in natural phenomena.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
teleology ; showing evidence ofdesign orpurpose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to teleology
Etymologies
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Examples
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We see this over-arching teleological from the Greek word telos or goal understanding of the human good present in the following statement that De Roover makes concerning the teaching of St. Antonino:
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Scanlon (1998) uses friendship to argue against what he calls teleological conceptions of values presupposed by consequentialism.
Friendship Helm, Bennett 2009
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The phenomenon is explicable only in "teleological" terms.
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It was ultimately replaced with Newtonian mechanics, which was not interested in teleological categories but instead dealt with observations on a quantitative level.
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It was ultimately replaced with Newtonian mechanics, which was not interested in teleological categories but instead dealt with observations on a quantitative level.
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FLE is an attempt to limit the number of variables inherent in teleological arguments.
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FLE is an attempt to limit the number of variables inherent in teleological arguments.
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Hey Krauss, do you believe in teleological evolution?
Big ideas take time 2006
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On one account, call it teleological utilitarianism, pleasant mental states are the ultimate intrinsic good, and human minds are just convenient loci of these desiderata.
Happiness Redux 2005
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Cause is relevant to ID, as it wishes to describe the process of evolution in teleological terms.
Clear Thinking? 2005
Louises commented on the word teleological
"Withoutmfirst having a thorough understanding of the political economy of the past, any act of imagination based on contemporary feelings, values and moral convictions will be teleologically silly and misleading." Noel Pearson quoted in Tim Rowse's "Rethinking Social Justice" p. 143
March 31, 2013