Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Directed or tending toward a goal or purpose; purposeful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a final end or purpose. See
ecbatic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from
ecbatic . Seeecbatic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar expressing end or purpose.
- adjective linguistics
perfective aspect . - adjective tending towards a goal or definite end.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wonder why they use the word telic as opposed to God?
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Wonder why they use the word telic as opposed to God?
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Presumably, since society is incapable of "telic" action, the implication is that some benevolent organization (perhaps the Socialist Party?) is required to do so.
Telic Action and Collective Stupidity: A Rare Jack London Essay 2010
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I ask you this Rock, how do you suggest those titles should have been phrased to avoid anything someone like you would consider "telic"?
A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008
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Or that any fitness function what-so-ever is "telic" because, for example, survival can be described as a "goal" even though no "purpose" or "intent" is required to meet that goal?
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I am inflammatory and satirical, etc., but also smart enough to know the difference between "telic" and "non-telic," Todd Berkebile.
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Why do you think that quote from Darwin is "telic" Are you claiming "perfection" is an intelligently selected goal?
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Doug writes: "She went from 'telic' to 'intelligent design' to 'creationism' to 'teaching religious doctrine in schools' embarrassingly in record time" – again, something I completely agree with.
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She went from 'telic' to 'intelligent design' to 'creationism' to 'teaching religious doctrine in schools' embarrassingly in record time.
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Intelligent Design, if true (of course, it is), would, in the same way, contradict the religion that says that all of life is the result of random processes having no "telic" direction.
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Kieran Setiya, a professor of philosophy at MIT and the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide – clearly a man with a few missions – has taken a lead from Aristotle to put forward the idea that we need both telic (taken from the Greek word telos, meaning “goal”) activities and atelic activities in our lives.
No goals: why is it so hard to do something for enjoyment’s sake? Jenny Valentish 2021
whichbe commented on the word telic
Tending toward a goal; expressing purpose.
May 20, 2008
stuartmathergibson commented on the word telic
telic
Directed or tending toward a goal or purpose; purposeful.
May 17, 2022