teleological

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.

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But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty. Christian Lous Lange

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. David Foster Wallace

In the same society in which the processes of production and distribution will go on far out at the circumference, the essential human concerns will move to the center, to the end, into the teleological questions of "where to" and "what for." Ernst Bloch

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress. John Carroll

The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological. Ted Chiang

it is absurd ... to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ("Dialectic of Teleological Judgment" §75) Immanuel Kant

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