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Then you get the aesthetic or teleologic kinds of rationality, saying that whatever fits in any way, whatever is beautiful or good, whatever is purposive or gratifies desire, is rational in so far forth.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

Then comes the teleologic proof, or that from final causes.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

This, however, was less astonishing: the pure marble grandeur of Milton, and his classical severity, naturally recommended themselves to the French taste, which can always understand the beauty of proportion and regular or teleologic tendencies.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Value in use, or, as Mr. De Quincey calls it, teleologic value, is the extreme limit of value in exchange.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart

In words used before, and applied alike to the spiritual and the material, it is at once dynamic and teleologic.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.