teleologist
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Galen is a teleologist; and a teleologist of a kind whose views happened to fit in with the prevailing theological attitude of the Middle Ages, whether Christian, Moslem, or Jewish.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
The denial of final causes is the formative idea of Darwin's theory, and therefore no teleologist can be a Darwinian.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
Will the teleologist maintain that this selective process is itself indicative of special design?
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
The arteries lie deeper than the veins, or are otherwise protected, for the purpose—as a teleologist would say—of preventing serious loss of blood from superficial cuts.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
Indeed he is a very decided teleologist on lines of his own, and, in physiology, takes sides strongly with 'vitalism' as against pure mechanicism.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
The teleologists have long told us that the valves in the veins of the arms and legs assist in the return of blood to the heart against gravitation.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
He taught that “the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
The special teleologists, such as Paley, occupy themselves with the latter only; they refer particular facts to special design, but leave an overwhelming array of the widest facts inexplicable.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
This argument is at any rate perfectly valid against Schopenhauer himself; for he holds in common with the optimistic teleologists that 'nature does nothing in vain.'
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
So the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
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