teleology

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The study of the design or final purpose of natural occurrences, that is, of such occurrences being the result of intention instead of prior causes.

   “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.”

2. isim Design, final purpose, or intention in a natural occurrence; (countable) an assertion or instance of this.

   “Their proposed explanation at the time was riddled with teleology.”

3. isim The belief or theory that a natural occurrence is the result of divine design or intention rather than the laws of nature or science; theoteleology; (countable) a particular belief or theory of this sort.