teleology

How To Use teleology In A Sentence

• You also failed to answer my second question: "From your POV does belief in evolution require an a priori commitment to dysteleology? Behe and Gene discuss the Evolution of the Flagellum
• Many of the mechanics, for instance, eschewed and reviled teleology. THE BROKEN GOD
• Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initiated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and teleology.
• Statement C starts from the same premise, but is an even more explicit version of a teleology of the oppressed.
• But sometimes the problem is thought to lie deeper, for example, in Kant's rationalism in moral theory and his ideas of teleology and race in anthropology.
• This portrays a loose teleology, a soft concept of creation, one that permits genuine, though not ultimate, integrity and autonomy in the creatures.
• In his precritical period he had still been intent upon settling the “distinctness of the fundamental principles of natural theology and morals” by placing teleology at the center of his argu - ment. THEODICY
• Even psychologists who applaud his teleology and antireductionist position may not be comfortable with him.
• In other words, dysteleology is a post hoc inference, not a propter hoc assumption. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
• The teleology which supposes that the eye, such as we see it in man, or one of the higher vertebrata, was made with the precise structure it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animal which possesses it to see, has undoubtedly received its death-blow. Juxtaposed Passages on Conditions of Existence