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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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