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Philosophical doctrine
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teleology
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"study of final causes," 1740, from Modern Latin teleologia , coined 1728 by German philosopher Baron Christian von Wolff (1679-1754) from Greek teleos "entire, perfect, complete," genitive of telos "end, goal, result" (see tele- ), + -logia (see -logy ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philosophy English) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences. 2 (context by extension English) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena. 3 The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Teleology (from Greek telos , meaning end or purpose) is the philosophical study of nature by attempting to describe things in terms of their apparent purpose, directive principle, or goal. A purpose that is imposed by a human use, such as that of a fork, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teleology \Te`le*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F. t['e]l['e]ologie.] The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.), the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
Usage examples of teleology.
The reality of India and Indians was thus supplanted by a powerful representation that posed them as an other to Europe, a primitive stage in the teleology of civilization.
Here is where a materialist telos is defined, founded on the action of singularities, a teleology that is a resultant of the res gestae and a figure of the machinic logic of the multitude.
As we are not writing a teleological argument, but only producing evidence that Darwinism excludes teleology, we cannot follow the details which prove that the wing of the gannet or swift is almost as wonderful and beautiful a specimen of contrivance as the eye of the eagle.