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Teleological   Listen
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Teleological  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
2.
Showing evidence of design or purpose, especially in natural phenomena.






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"Teleological" Quotes from Famous Books



... Life and Habit" was in reality an easy corollary on his system, though one which he does not appear to have caught sight of. I saw also that his denial of design was only, so to speak, skin deep, and that his system was in reality teleological, inasmuch as, to use Isidore Geoffroy's words, it makes the organism design itself. In making variations depend on changed actions, and these, again, on changed views of life, efforts, and designs, in consequence of changed conditions of life, he in effect makes effort, intention, will, all ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler



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