Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who purposes, resolves, or determines on any particular course of action; one who forms a resolution.
- noun One who proposes or sets forth anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.
- noun One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
purposes something.
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Examples
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First, Ayala accepts a dictionary definition of teleology which refers to “design, purpose, or utility” without including a reference to a description of the agent which is designer, purposer or utilizer.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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First, Ayala accepts a dictionary definition of teleology which refers to “design, purpose, or utility” without including a reference to a description of the agent which is designer, purposer or utilizer.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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First, Ayala accepts a dictionary definition of teleology which refers to “design, purpose, or utility” without including a reference to a description of the agent which is designer, purposer or utilizer.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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A seer, a purposer, a creator, a future itself, and a bridge to the future — and alas! also as it were a cripple on this bridge: all that is
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A seer, a purposer, a creator, a future itself, and a bridge to the future-and alas! also as it were a cripple on this bridge: all that is Zarathustra.
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A seer, a purposer, a creator, a future itself, and a bridge to the future -- and alas! also as it were a cripple on this bridge: all that is
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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According to sources, the Speaker reminded the leaders that there was a provision to withdraw the proposal of the prime minister's candidacy subject to the approval of the House if the purposer does so in writing.
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And as few tools grow naturally fit for use (for even a stick or a fuller's teasel must be cut from their places and modified to some extent before they can be called tools), the word "tool" implies not only a purpose and a purposer, but a purposer who can see in what manner his purpose can be achieved, and who can contrive (or find ready-made and fetch and employ) the tool which shall achieve it.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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Wouldn’t you agree that we must identify “design, purpose, or utility” for a process and a description of the agent which is designer, purposer or utilizer for the process before we claim that we have observed teleology?
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Wouldn’t you agree that we must identify “design, purpose, or utility” for a process and a description of the agent which is designer, purposer or utilizer for the process before we claim that we have observed teleology?
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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