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teleology


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Teleology  \Te`le*ol"o*gy\,  n.  [Gr.  ?,  teleos,  the  end  or  issue  + 
  -logy:  cf  F.  t['e]l['e]ologie.] 
  The  doctrine  of  the  final  causes  of  things  specif.  (Biol.), 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  teleology 
  n  :  a  doctrine  explaining  phenomena  by  their  ends  or  purposes 




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