The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teleological \Te`le*o*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. t['e]l['e]ologique.]
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
showing evidence of design or purpose, especially in natural phenomena. [PJC] -- Te`le*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to teleology
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "teleological".
Thus, on level 1, or A, we already find dissipative or self-organizing structures, holons with depth and span, creative emergence, increasing complexity, evolutionary development, differentiation, self-transcendence, teleological attractors, and so forth.
That projection continued for a long time, as long as lasted the necessity and urgency to rediscover a site of freedom that could continue the teleological vision of which Hegelian historicism is perhaps the highest expression.
Natural society is initial, civil government is medial, the church is teleological, but the three are only distinctions in one indissoluble whole.
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.
The second, which replaces synchrony by diachrony, is more productive, but sins by being too teleological.
These attractors, in other words, are examples of the regimes or organizing forces of social holons and their inherent teleological pull to pattern (without which a holon would simply not exist).
Some of them still are human, untouched by the drive of meta-evolution that has replaced blind Darwinian change with a goal-directed teleological progress.
In the absence of the Ivory Towers teleological salon, hed established a mobile chain of command that served the same exclusive purpose of limiting direct access to him.
Now, returning to our discussion of teleological anomalies, how do your own savants reconcile the various antic overviews to which we have made reference?
He had long philosophical pow-wows with his professors and friends, and these gurgled with such words as teleological and epistemological , and there was much extremely fine-honed stuff about scepticism and the whole of life being a can of worms.
If we want to survive, we must avoid the facile self-deceptions of teleological explanations.
The left's teleological argument for Communist domination was a lie.
Not really believing that I was having a teleological argument with a robot.