Examples of 'teleological' in a sentence

Meaning of "teleological"

teleological (adjective) - relating to the explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes. It is often used in philosophy and theology
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  • Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.

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I am what you call a teleological existential atheist.
Teleological or necessarily improving the human condition.
He supported a theistic and teleological interpretation of evolution.
The teleological doctrine favoes the ends.
Question of what it is that teleological explanations explain.
These teleological doubts must be taken into account.
Restored behavior is both teleological and eschatological.
Teleological considerations also lead to the same conclusion.
Its approach is teleological rather than causal.
This produces an unacceptable appeal to teleological causation.
Check out my teleological suspension of the ethical.
The second approach is the teleological approach.
This is the teleological suspension of the ethical.
The first of these is the teleological argument.
Schematic and teleological interpretation are therefore necessarily interwoven.

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He is thought be the leading expert on the teleological argument.
A qualitative teleological approach to cardiovascular physiology.
Something known as the teleological argument.
This teleological optimism is not without its ambiguity.
Thus they upheld a teleological evolutionism.
The difference between the mechanistic and teleological.
Nature is teleological and has a purpose.
This theory is also known as teleological.
This should be done by a teleological methodology of interpretation.
It became unfashionable to represent the world in a teleological way.
Schematic ane teleological interpretation.
Teleological philosophies deal with the moral worthiness of a behavior.
Teilhard regards evolution as a teleological and directional process.
Promiscuous teleological thinking was weakly related to supernatural belief.
Historians tend to have a teleological focus.
The teleological argument means the argument from purpose.
The present project challenges this teleological perspective.
One type of teleological argument is the argument from design.
It is growth that lacks a teleological progress.
The teleological argument is really a subcategory of the cosmological argument.
Descartes abolished the teleological dimension.
Such a teleological worldview was held by many of the great philosophers.
People bring up the cosmological and teleological arguments.
The teleological and the.
That is a very important teleological precedent.
The teleological belief went on to include cultural evolution and social evolution.
I read your paper on the teleological response of the virus.
We would experience our international system in a new teleological way.
On schematic and teleological interpretation.
And therefore is inherently teleological.
He was very metaphysical and teleological in his approach to revolutionary change.
Aristotle bases his ethical theory on this teleological worldview.
The work deals with the teleological foundations of biblical leadership.
Natural history is not teleological.
A teleological view of history.

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