Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who maintains the doctrine of or studies final causes. Compare
ætiologist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) One versed in teleology.
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- noun one who studies
teleology
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- noun advocate of teleology
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Examples
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Stewart, in short, is a 'teleologist' of the Paley variety.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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In the Traditional Template, all the non-teleologist has to do is imagine come up with a possible pathway to counter the teleological position.
Crossroads 2009
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Aristotle has been traditionally misinterpreted as a cosmic teleologist.
Against Darwinism 2009
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Since a front-loading designer would probably always design something that could be used in the present, so that it would survive into the future, a non-teleologist could always argue that Front Loading is empirically vacuous.
A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008
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A non-teleologist would argue that changing the behavior of rats came about how, exactly?
Brain Parasites 2007
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A non-teleologist would argue that changing the behavior of rats came about how, exactly?
Brain Parasites 2007
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It looks more to me like how a non-teleologist would rationalize a teleological cause/event.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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What's more, the non-teleologist expects the 'evidence' of a teleological cause to look like something a non-teleological cause might produce.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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As a non-teleologist, Art expects a non-teleological origin of life.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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While no non-teleologist should not feel obliged to adopt FLE (or even consider it), neither should any teleologist feel obliged to abandon it or ignore it.
shevek commented on the word teleologist
n. One whose moral philosophy is based on achieving an outcome, or equivalently, one whose moral philosophy primarily judges the means based on the end. Contrast deontologist.
July 17, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word teleologist
Most of us would say consequentialist, though.
July 17, 2008