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Meanings of teleology in English

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Usage of teleology in English
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Neither mechanism nor teleology can give an absolute answer to ultimate questions.
Darwin and Modern Science
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But the time had not come for emancipation from the old teleology.
Darwin and Modern Science
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They are saturated with a teleology which, at times, becomes excessively tedious.
The Legacy of Greece / Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J....
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But is it a teleology, or rather-touse the new-fangledterm- adysteleology
Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
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It is also a pompous and rather ingenious bit of teleology.
Wired
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It is that Darwin rejects all teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.
What is Darwinism?
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The teleology of conscience is very simple, and its genesis and development purely natural.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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Even more obviously, childish teleology sets us up for religion.
The god delusion
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The link to teleology can be dismissed as not only wrong, but entirely backwards.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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They'll call it mystical teleology, an execrable excuse for philosophy.
Spiral
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We recognize a duty at sight without realizing its teleology.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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Conditions of Existence, of course, express the principle of adaptation-finalcause or teleology to pre-evolutionists.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Catastrophism, a short-sighted teleology, and a still more short-sighted orthodoxy, joined forces to crush evolution.
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
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Yet in a limited and special sense he finds teleology to be not inconsistent with morphology.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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Is he an evolutionist making fun of teleology?
Evolution, Old & New / Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus D...
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The answer depends on a certain teleology.
The Guardian
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