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" (15 found)
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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.
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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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