There are no such things as functions, no purposes, no teleology at all in the world.
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Teleology
//ˌtiː.liˈɒ.lə.dʒi//
Synonyms for "teleology" (13 found)
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6 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
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1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 18 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologia noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 目的論 /目的论 noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- 目的論 /目的论 noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Czech
2 entries- teleologie noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologie noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Dutch
3 entries- doelmatigheidsleer noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologie noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologie noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Finnish
3 entries- tarkoitusoppi noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologinen selitys noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
French
1 entries- téléologie noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
German
1 entries- Teleologie noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Hungarian
1 entries- teleológia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Irish
2 entries- teileolaíocht noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teileolaíocht noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Italian
1 entries- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Macedonian
2 entries- телеологија noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- телеологија noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Occitan
1 entries- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Polish
1 entries- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Portuguese
2 entries- teleologia noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleologia noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Romanian
1 entries- teleologie noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Russian
2 entries- телеоло́гия noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- телеоло́гия noun (use of purpose to explain occurrence)
Spanish
1 entries- teleología noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Turkish
2 entries- erek bilimi noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
- teleoloji noun (study of the purpose of occurrences)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The received intellectual tradition has it that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, revolutionary philosophers began to curtail and reject the teleology of the medieval and scholastic Aristotelians, abandoning final causes in favor of a purely mechanistic model of the Universe.
Source: wiktionary
In short, what every student of biology knows – that within nature there is a teleology having to do with the survival of the species which underpins the distinction between the two sexes and produces between them a natural affinity for one another – no surgeon who knows what is good for him may now say.
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