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1. Teleology: Teleology (from Ancient Greek: and Ancient Greek:) or finality is a reason or an explanation for something which serves as a function of its end, its purpose, or its goal, as opposed to something which serves as a function of ... (Philosophy) [100%] 2023-11-27 [Teleology] [Causality]...
2. Teleology: Teleology (from the Greek, telos - purpose or end) is the philosophical idea of design, purpose and goal-directed intention. Aristotle stated that "Men do not think they know a thing till they have grasped the 'why' of it (which is ... [100%] 2023-09-06
3. Teleology: Teleology (Greek: telos: end, purpose) is the philosophical study of design and purpose. A teleological school of thought is one that holds all things to be designed for or directed toward a final result, that there is an inherent purpose ... [100%] 2023-11-22 [Teleology] [Philosophical terminology]...
4. Teleology: Teleology, in philosophy and theology, strictly that branch of study which considers "final causes" as real principles of explanation, i. which explains things as existing solely as pre-requisites of the results which they produce. More commonly the term is ... [100%] 2022-09-02
5. Teleology: Teleology in the strict sense is a branch of philosophy that studies final purposes or Aristotelian "final causes" of the universe and evidence of this purpose in the world's set-up — or, to use the current-fad jargon, "design ... [100%] 2023-12-12 [Philosophy]
6. Teleology in biology: Teleology in biology is the use of the language of goal-directedness in accounts of evolutionary adaptation, which some biologists and philosophers of science find problematic. The term teleonomy has also been proposed. (Philosophy) [57%] 2023-12-10 [Teleology] [Causality]...
7. Kant’s Aesthetics and Teleology: Kant’s views on aesthetics and teleology are most fully presented in his Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft, now often translated Critique of the Power of Judgment), published in 1790. This work is in two parts, preceded by a ... (Philosophy) [50%] 2022-07-23