teleologic
- a variation of teleological.
- a word derived from teleology.
Example Sentences
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Proof: Identity of development; subjective, personal character of both; teleologic character; analogy between the abortive forms of the imagination and abulias.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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
Then comes the teleologic proof, or that from final causes.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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
