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"Species" is a teleological concept, which is the real reason why materialist, a-telological, biologists have a problem with it.
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Mung: "Species" is a teleological concept, which is the real reason why materialist, a-telological, biologists have a problem with it.
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Darwinians and materialists in general constantly use telological language.
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I, too, had similar reactions to Wieseltier's formulation of the the politics of virtue being a vice, and his idiotic criticism of religion, Christianity in this context, as "the telological suspension of the ethical."
I think I've found the ultimate in anti-Palin gas-baggery. Ann Althouse 2008
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Why do we now except the scientific explanation over the telological one?
Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief Michael Turton 2006
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Why do we now except the scientific explanation over the telological one?
Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief Michael Turton 2006
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