The phenomenon is explicable only in "teleological" terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Homology and Longevity] Reference

Scanlon (1998) uses friendship to argue against what he calls teleological conceptions of values presupposed by consequentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

Hey Krauss, do you believe in teleological evolution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big ideas take time] Reference

I guess one way to describe these differences is in teleological terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Nobel Laureate] Reference

FLE is an attempt to limit the number of variables inherent in teleological arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer)] Reference

Cause is relevant to ID, as it wishes to describe the process of evolution in teleological terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear Thinking?] Reference

It was ultimately replaced with Newtonian mechanics, which was not interested in teleological categories but instead dealt with observations on a quantitative level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?] Reference

I'm what you would call a teleological existential atheist.    From Wordnik.com.  [amor mundi] Reference

This is what is known as teleological reasoning and it is thoroughly misleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

“Salvation-History,” or, in other words, a teleological process in which the purpose of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Adaptive processes are not somehow teleological, which is the way they seem to be described here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resistance versus Avoidance, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

This was the argument from design or argument a posteriori (also known as teleological arguments).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hume on Religion] Reference

This typology is characteristic of the historicism of his general philosophy which is teleological, that is to say, aiming toward a final goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integral Options Cafe] Reference

As purposive, this development is characterized as teleological, but this does not entail positing any final telos to which all previous stages are to be subsumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilhelm Dilthey] Reference

Both children and adults conceive of other things in the world as goal-directed and respond to them in that way -- a mode of thinking known as teleological thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief] Reference

And, yes, I know it has the word "teleological" on page 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Top-down Approach] Reference

This is exactly why evolutionary theory (Whatever that is.) is a design theory (and "teleological"!).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Telic View of the Universe] Reference

I was actually going to suggest one of the most carefully studied "teleological" systems – bacterial chemotaxis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Homology and Longevity] Reference

Those very movements have an aim or purpose for the spider, and hence they are subject to a kind of teleological explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action] Reference

When she hears "teleological" her mind jumps to "classical teleological argument" which of course hasn't ever shown its head on our blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case of Mistaken Identity?] Reference

I don't need it to have meaning in any kind of teleological sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartache with Hard Work] Reference

He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity -- "teleological" activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Moral codes based on the outcomes of decisions are called 'teleological' whereas those based on rules about behaviour are called 'deontological.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [a sibilant intake of breath] Reference

It is difficult to define accurately what is meant by a "teleological" system, but the argument is not much affected by the particular definition we adopt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference

Here the questions of competition and censorship combine and rise to a teleological level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Net Neutrality: It All Depends On What You Fear] Reference

One of the classic statements of relativistic and teleological morality is Utilitarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Another argument against the teleological view is derived from the facts of the cell-theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

He begins by contrasting the teleological with the materialistic conception of living things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

And it is just upon this notion of the individuality of the organism that the teleological concept is based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Where teleological Dualism seeks the arbitrary thoughts of a capricious Creator in miracles of creation, causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference

The teleological conception, again, leads to difficulties particularly when it is applied to the facts of reproduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

In the anatomical works, masses of teleological explanation dilute the account of often imperfectly described structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

But there is no teleological reason why the coracoid process of the scapula should in all mammals develop from a separate centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

In one sense it states a platitude -- a truth, indeed, which is not excluded from an absolute or teleological conception of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

In these essays von Baer pointed out the necessity for the teleological point of view, at least as complementary to the mechanistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

In the teleological view, a special force works in the living organism, guiding and directing its activities towards a purposeful end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The afflux of blood to the uterus during the rupture of the ovisac, cannot be shown to be useful by any effort of teleological physiologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference