teleologically love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With reference to or as regards teleology; on teleological grounds; by or with reference to purpose or design.

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  • adverb In a teleological context or manner.

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Examples

  • Since both Nature and Mind act teleologically, that is with

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • For a model of sedentarization as a processual, voluntary, and flexible response to changing local circumstances, see Salzman (1980), p. 14, which is useful because it prompts a reciprocal characterization of nomadization and its forms as adaptive strategies rather than teleologically.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Like Kant, Shelley may be invested in a concept of the ultimate unity of the faculties, a unity that, as that poem suggests, he too may conceive teleologically.

    Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc' 2008

  • In other words, in order to explain adequately teleologically the movements of my limbs, there must be causal openness or a causal gap in my brain.

    Stewart Goetz - The Causal Closure Argument William Harryman 2009

  • To insure clarity about what is at issue, consider one more example of movements of my body that according to common sense could only be adequately explained by mental causation of a soul whose choice is teleologically explained by a purpose or reason.

    Stewart Goetz - The Causal Closure Argument William Harryman 2009

  • And read non-teleologically, the section holds up fairly well in relation to modern historical scholarship.

    Primitive accumulation Daniel Little 2009

  • But it is possible, and preferable, to read Marx's analysis here less teleologically, as simply a detailed account of some of the crucial but contingent changes that took place in rural social relations during these centuries, without importing the idea that these changes were functionally related to the later development of capitalism.

    Primitive accumulation Daniel Little 2009

  • Rather, my claim is that our commonsense understanding of our purposeful activity entails that some physical events must occur whose ultimate causal explanation is not other physical events but non-physical mental events whose occurrences are explained teleologically by purposes.

    Stewart Goetz - The Causal Closure Argument William Harryman 2009

  • But it is possible, and preferable, to read Marx's analysis here less teleologically, as simply a detailed account of some of the crucial but contingent changes that took place in rural social relations during these centuries, without importing the idea that these changes were functionally related to the later development of capitalism.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • And read non-teleologically, the section holds up fairly well in relation to modern historical scholarship.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

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