teleonomic

If you have thought about normative statements at all, I suspect that you do not understand that normative statements that tell us to follow our natures (teleonomic programming) are positive as well as normative in that it is our nature (teleonomic programming) to follow our natures (teleonomic programming).

Teacher Pay and Quality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

However, I don't think that this means that there is a merely quantitative continuum of "encoding" from teleomatic to teleonomic to teleological processes.

Against Darwinism 2009

While Wilkins makes an effort to separate out teleological systems from the larger set of teleonomic systems and larger yet of teleomatic systems.

Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007

What he * ought* to say is that teleonomic processes are an illusion – that there are really only teleomatic processes, and that "program" does not describe anything objectively real, but perhaps that it is convenient for us to describe things this way.

The Memory Hole 2005

Evolution is a teleonomic process, the “end” is merely what we see as a result of the identified and yet-to-be-identified processes of variation, natural, sexual, and neutral selection, etc.

Purpose, specification and function - The Panda's Thumb 2006