teleological
adjective
of or relating to teleology, the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
teleologic
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a variation of
teleological.
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a word derived from
teleology.
teleologynounthe doctrine that final causes exist.
Example Sentences
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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 John Stuart Mill
It appears to me just as teleologic and divinatory as those I have previously named.
From An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Then comes the teleologic proof, or that from final causes.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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 William James
