purposive behavior. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
purposive behavior. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
On the other hand: nothing better expresses the idea of purposive, responsible, and self-directed guidance of the reproductive powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
U.S. psychologist who developed a system of psychology known as purposive, or molar, behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total organism. From Wordnik.com. [Nothingandall] Reference
In instance A, the case ending of choice is the locative in -e extended with the postposition -ri which is believed to be purposive, meaning "for"1. From Wordnik.com. [Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 1] Reference
The judgement that something is 'purposive' can however mean one of two things. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This apparently purposive movement has been pointed out by M. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Movements, precision of purposive, development of self-command of. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Motions may also be classed as natural, artificial and purposive. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
He is concerned with conduct, which is intelligent and purposive action. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The first purposive movements of the child should be welcomed and encouraged. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
The ossification of the bones of the skull from separate centres may be purposive in. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Of the voluntary, purposive crying of infants a little older I am not here speaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Since the ability to live is threatened by this specialization it cannot be purposive. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
In view of this, everyone should exercise utmost care to gain purposive determination. From Wordnik.com. [Bring Quality Back into Buddhist Pursuits] Reference
It was a calculated and purposive step toward auguring a charismatic leadership profile. From Wordnik.com. [Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Señorita Palin's Cojones] Reference
It is thought of as non - purposive, noncognitive, frivolous, time-wasting, and hedonic. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
It is the outcome of purposive human action in many struggles waged over a number of years. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future] Reference
The explicit and purposive assertion of art for art's sake is a strictly modern phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [ART FOR ART'S SAKE] Reference
By a free act of faith the scattered and imperfect fragments must be built into a purposive unity. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Not everything is purposive; the rest must be explained as coming from the “necessity” of matter. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He said the Local Government Transition Act should be interpreted in a "generous and purposive manner". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The first purposive movements of the child's limbs are carried out in order to evoke tactile sensations. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
In the end, it is the quite different, purposive sense of "end" - as objective, or target - that's operative. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Morris: The End of Philosophy?] Reference
His lack of stability, his inability for any continuous purposive effort, made him slip from under the stress. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Under such persons as leaders purposive progress may be achieved more rapidly and effectually in the near future. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The child whose impulses towards purposive action are encouraged is generally a happy child, with a mind at rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Firstly he called himself a purposive behaviorist because he maintained that the concept of purpose was irreducible. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
Our modern idea of progress has been strongly influenced by Kantian and Hegelian ideas of human history as purposive. From Wordnik.com. ['Providence Lost'] Reference
Nature is like art, in that it is purposive; explanations of the phenomena of nature will therefore seek first for the. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He entered school and meets with the first obligation, with the first necessity for a well-regulated, purposive existence. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Many volumes have been written to give a purposive interpretation of the rise and evolutionary ramifications of living forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
They may have the appearance of being vaguely purposive, although we would never attribute purpose to the creature making them. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And the reasonableness of this view grows the clearer to us the more we realise the purposive character of the evolutionary process. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
This purposive unity cannot well be secured without spatial contiguity; here, as in sculpture, a unified life demands a unified material. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The history of evolution convinces us that the highly purposive and admirably constituted sense organs, like all other organs, have developed. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
In that context, he felt the natural rights argument was much weaker and the need for socially defined purposive contours and limitations stronger. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Milne-Edwards frankly takes up the teleological standpoint, and interprets organic forms on the assumption that they are purposive and rationally constructed. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Worse still, when the light changes and others around them surge forward, they remain immobile, slow to respond, blocking those with purposive gait behind them. From Wordnik.com. [The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter] Reference
"There are naturalists who do not discard the theory of selection simply because it seems to furnish a much-desired mechanical explanation of purposive adaptions". From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
Bergson for example, evolution itself, in its steady production of higher types, has been held to be too purposive in character to permit of a purely mechanical explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
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