Adjective : a telic conjunction.    From Dictionary.com. 

I like the term "telic" a lot better, but I'm not necessarily convinced that's the best word, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction] Reference

Why do you think that quote from Darwin is "telic" Are you claiming "perfection" is an intelligently selected goal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Homology and Longevity] Reference

I am inflammatory and satirical, etc., but also smart enough to know the difference between "telic" and "non-telic," Todd Berkebile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Homology and Longevity] Reference

I ask you this Rock, how do you suggest those titles should have been phrased to avoid anything someone like you would consider "telic"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tetrahymena Puzzle] Reference

She went from 'telic' to 'intelligent design' to 'creationism' to 'teaching religious doctrine in schools' embarrassingly in record time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case of Mistaken Identity?] Reference

The musing has an unmistakable telic aspect to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 September - Telic Thoughts] Reference

= -- There are three distinct means of telic progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

I think the Third Choice allows for a telic universe "of some sort".    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatorial Dependencies] Reference

As progress becomes in this way more telic it will become more rapid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

Also, by my definitions, telic processes don't need to be intelligent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

For some reason, telic thinkers don't participate, but I don't know why.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sociological Phenomenon] Reference

To teach a non-telic theory, you simply teach a theory that is without teleology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference

That's the problem: all telic thinking ever produces is "papers favorable to ID".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sociological Phenomenon] Reference

Thank you for another fine example of dull, anecdotal evidence for telic intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

What's most interesting from the telic perspective is the foundational role of choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choosing To Evolve] Reference

As I said, anyone is free to make any "philosophical assumptions", even telic thinkers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sociological Phenomenon] Reference

When studying the science of planetary formation, the prevailing theories are non-telic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference

As you yourself admit, telic views will require extraordinary evidence for it to pan out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

I don't see how this does anything to distinguish between telic and any other hypotheses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

MikeGene: To teach a non-telic theory, you simply teach a theory that is without teleology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference

No, thus proving a non-telic emergence paradigm is grounded in preference, not observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Look] Reference

Thanks in turn for your theological arguments against the possibility of telic intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

They are trying to explain the appearance of telic processes in terms of non-telic agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

At a base level, the purpose of the telic universe is to exist and be consistent with itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatorial Dependencies] Reference

No problem, this blog is supposed to be independent of other telic thinkers, so that is cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornelius Hunter accuses Behe of Circular Reasoning] Reference

If supporting scientific data is available then it exclusively supports a non-telic viewpoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

Trying to explore a potential difference between telic and intelligence might blow some fuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

The Theory of Evolution is a non-telic theory, just as is the Theory of Gravity or meteorology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference

When learning the prevailing theory in biology, you will properly be taught a non-telic theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?] Reference

I believe many people are open to intelligent and telic causes of abiogenesis (as they define it).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

I think it is entirely possible for telic views to pan out without the type of data that you need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

If it were true then a mindless process would give rise to a quintessentially telic human organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuation…] Reference

The air between Croven and the veteran was taut, telic, as something invisible probed and strained it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

By that definition I could say gravity is telic because it serves the goal of bringing masses together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Homology and Longevity] Reference

This category was largely characterized by telic verbs marked in the continuous aspect later Narten presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective] Reference

Purposive progress rather than unconscious, telic rather than genetic, is the order of the evolution of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

Certain families may definitely determine to modify their habits, and within a few years accomplish a telic change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

But with the awakening of the social consciousness and a quickening of the social conscience has come telic progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

This was to take place through the “telic” or purposeful guidance of man's future by the planned use of applied intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference