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Teleology

Teleology Meaning & Definition
Teleology Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Teleology?

[n] a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes

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See Also | philosophical doctrine | philosophical theory

Teleology In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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