Teleology is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TELEOLOGY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the doctrine that final causes exist in nature
• the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise
• the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world.
• belief that all things have a predetermined purpose
• The doctrine of the final causes of things
• the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
• (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the study of evidences of design in nature; a doctrine (as in vitalism) that ends are immanent in nature; a doctrine explaining phenomena by final causes

Words related to TELEOLOGY

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Words that contain TELEOLOGY

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How to use TELEOLOGY in a sentence

• Without importing teleology, we should naturally expect that the intellect and the emotions should be capable of working harmoniously together.
• In the earliest dawn of recorded thought, teleology in some form or another has been the most generally accepted theory whereby the order of Nature is explained.
• The teleology of Revelation supplements that of Nature, and so, to the spiritually minded man, they logically and mutually corroborate one another.
• I have in the last few pages been discussing the doctrine of purposes and ends, teleology, but I have said nothing of the significance of that doctrine for Theism.
• Distinction between a scientific and a metaphysical teleology.
• Examination of the question as to whether the metaphysical system of teleology is really destitute of all rational support.
• Final judgment on the rational value of a metaphysical system of teleology.
• And this achievement of science, be it never forgotten, is an achievement of prodigious importance, effectually destroying, as it does, all vestiges of a scientific teleology.
• Thus it is that scientific teleology in any form is now and for ever obsolete.
• But not so with what I have termed metaphysical teleology.
• We have now heard the pleading on both sides of the ultimate issue to which it is possible that the argument from teleology can ever be reduced.
• Hence I conceive that the acceptance or the rejection of metaphysical teleology as probable will depend entirely upon individual habits of thought.
• I conclude, therefore, that the hypothesis of metaphysical teleology, although in a physical sense gratuitous, may be in a psychological sense legitimate.
• But the time had not come for emancipation from the old teleology.
• I have preferred to show the influence of the older teleology upon Natural History by quotations from a single great and insufficiently appreciated naturalist.
• Neither mechanism nor teleology can give an absolute answer to ultimate questions.
• The idea of the niche and its occupant growing together from simpler to more complex mutual adjustment was unwelcome to this teleology.
• If the adaptation was traced to the influence, through competition, of the environment, the old teleology lost an illustration and a proof.
• The old teleology was more useful to science than to religion, and the design-naturalists ought to be gratefully remembered by Biologists.
• It is that Darwin rejects all teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.
• And no doubt it is quite true the doctrine of evolution is the most formidable of all the commoner and coarser forms of teleology.
• His distinction between a higher and lower teleology is of no account in this discussion.
• And no doubt it is quite true that the doctrine of Evolution is the most formidable opponent of all the commoner and coarser forms of Teleology.
• In this way the dualism between mechanism and teleology is reconciled.
• These have been called the law of Unconscious Teleology, and the law of Reversed Effort.
• The law of unconscious teleology means that when an end has been effectively suggested to it, the unconscious mind will always tend to work towards its realization.
• And unless we admit an inner teleology as a determining factor in growth, many facts even in physiology are hard to explain.

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