Teleology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The study of design or purpose in natural phenomena.
  • n. The use of ultimate purpose or design as a means of explaining phenomena.
  • n. Belief in or the perception of purposeful development toward an end, as in nature or history.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
  • n. An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
  • n. The use of a non-natural purpose or design to explain an occurrence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The doctrine of the final causes of things.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The doctrine of final causes; the theory of tendency to an end.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory   
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    physicalism    symptomatology    amourist    gynecology    ergotism   
     
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