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Noun Concept

Categories: Causality, Historiography, Articles with short description, Teleology, Subfields of metaphysics

teleology finalism Functional Areas Illegitimate teleology Promiscuous teleology

(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes WordNet 3.0

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(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Teleology or finality is a branch of causality giving the reason or an explanation for something as a function of its end, its purpose, or its goal, as opposed to as a function of its cause. Wikipedia

The philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent purpose or goal Wikipedia Disambiguation

Things in terms of their apparent purpose, directive principle, or goal Wikidata

The study of the purpose of natural occurrences. OmegaWiki

An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena. Wiktionary

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philosophical doctrine

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philosophy

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teleologist

teleological

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

teleology

Wikipedia

teleology

Wikidata

teleology

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teleology

OmegaWiki

teleology

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finalism, Functional Areas, Illegitimate teleology, Promiscuous teleology, purposeful, purposes in life, Science of God, Scienctific theism, Scientific theism, teleologic, teleological, Teleological system, teleologically, teleologism, Teleologisms, teleologists