Definitionn. (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
Last update: August 19, 2015
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Finally, it is to be observed that Locke had a singularly clear view of organic arrangements (which of course he explained according to a theistic teleology) as an adaptation to the circumstances of the environment or to " the neighbourhood of the bodies that surround us." [Please select]
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Materialism and teleology; elementary short-span actions summing themselves 'blindly,' or far foreseen ideals coming with effort into act. [Please select]
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Mechanism: the material world a, 147-150; objections to the doctrine, 148-150; mind and mechanism, 151-154; mechanism and morals, 159-164; mechanism and teleology, reference, 310. [Please select]
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It threatened to reduce the last stronghold of teleology, and completely to dispense with the intelligent Author of nature. [Please select]
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TELEOLOGY, in cosmology, 161; proof of God from, 204; Spinoza on, 318; in Plato, 326 ff. [Please select]
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Fries of ideas in Herbart in Lotze in recent physical science _See also_ Naturalism, Physical Science, Teleology Meier, G. [Please select]
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Naturalism characteristic of modern philosophy _See also_ Mechanism, Physical Science, Teleology Nature, Philosophy of early Italian Schelling's among Schelling's followers Hegel's J. [Please select]
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It is a battle between teleology and non-teleology, between the purposiveness and the non-purposiveness of the organs in animal and vegetable bodies. [Please select]
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As another illustration we may take the case of mechanism and teleology. [Please select]
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Where the world process is informed with some singleness of plan, as teleology proposes, the parts are reciprocally necessary, and inseparable from the unity. [Please select]
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Energetics, it is true, may obtain a definite meaning for its central conception from the measurable behavior of external bodies, and a meaning that may be quite free from vitalism or teleology. [Please select]
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