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What does teleology mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
  2. (by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
  3. The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence.
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Their etiology and teleology are explicable within a moral and historical paradigm.
Pragmatism in ethics is often regarded as a form of teleology or consequentialism.
That is 035using teleology as a regulative principle, in Kant's sense of the word.
That ground could unite both mechanism and teleology, by making both antinomic theses jointly derivable or explainable from it.
It is a model that applies both a human and a divine teleology through Thomas's hallmark ethics of natural law.
Thus the appearance of teleology by itself is not sufficient to infer intelligent design.

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