teleologically
- a word derived from teleological.
- a word derived from teleology.
Example Sentences
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So that though, to speak teleologically, Nature has provided efficient safeguards to health, lack of knowledge makes them in a great measure useless.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
The whole movement will thus take the form, genetically, of a developing purpose informed by an idea, or teleologically, of a purpose going on to its fulfillment in some aim which is also its motive.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
We found that a system with one set of determinants may very likely have other sets of a quite different kind, that, for example, a mechanically determined system may also be teleologically or volitionally determined.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
Thus, it will be noticed, from the ingenious and subtle, but quite defensible suggestion of Mr. Babbage, a leap is made to an assumption which cannot be defended scientifically, but only teleologically.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John
Nothing is to be interpreted teleologically, but all must be interpreted from clearly known attributes, hence purely mechanically.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
