Definitionadj. having or showing or acting with a purpose or design
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He had a purposive stand on his argument. [Please select]
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Idealism starts from the relativity of the world to purposive consciousness. [Please select]
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The purposive character of a nervous illness is well illustrated by two cases reported by Thaddeus Hoyt Ames. [Please select]
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The term "life" here signifies the human purposive consciousness, and active pursuit of ends. [Please select]
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Over and above these neglected properties of things there remain the purposive activities of thought. [Please select]
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Indeed, the only fruitful method applicable to organic phenomena was that which explained them in terms of purposive adaptation. [Please select]
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If he had it for the looking, thought would not be, as it so evidently is, a purposive endeavor. [Please select]
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But soon the eye could discern movements of purposive kind on the part of the alarmed residents. [Please select]
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According to Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, and Paley, organs are purposive; according to Mr. [Please select]
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The organism is essentially purposive: the impossibility of devising any adequate accounts of organic form and function without taking account of the psychical side is most strenuously asserted. [Please select]
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That heredity is only possible under the circumstances of a constant superintendence of the embryonic development by a purposive unconscious activity of growth. [Please select]
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