purposive
Speech parts
1. purposive - Adjective
2. purposive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having or indicating purpose or design.
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Examples
To us, all life is a series of accidents to be met with improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met with precalculation.
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
Modern institutions are transparently purposive and that we are in the midst of an evolutionary progression toward more efficient forms.
Personal causality, refers to instances in which p causes x intentionally. That is to say, the action is purposive.
It is part of the meaning of suffering that it is that which cuts athwart our purposive movements. It represents the denial from beyond ourselves of our movement toward pleasure; or it is the frustration of our movement toward self-realization or toward the actualization of our potentialities.
purposive behavior