teleological
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonteleological adjective
- nonteleologically adverb
- teleologically adverb
Etymology
Origin of teleological
Example Sentences
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Instead, Harris’s seamless, all-explanatory narrative feels increasingly and weirdly teleological, like a cult belief system.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023
Today, some might think that atomism and Aristotle’s teleological view have evolved into a theory of cells that resolves the acorn-oak tree identity problem.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
We can't have a teleological view of the future.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2019
The standard story about mass printing is a story of linear, teleological progress.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019
It is important here to distinguish between teleological history—the notion that history has a purpose or goal—and retrospective history, which seeks to study history as a process of development.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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