Chance occurrence of an event is one in which no cause can be identified explaining its teleological or purposeful specificity. |
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So it is very hard to see how the teleological argument, any more than the cosmological, can overturn the argument from evil. |
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In 1748 Maupertuis showed that Newton's laws of motion could be derived by the application of a teleological principle. |
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Paley advances the teleological argument from design founded on the unity and adaptability of created things. |
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The most important of those proofs were the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, and the teleological argument. |
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It's a teleological structure, but the successful continuation of the presence of the interactive focus defers and ultimately defeats the telos. |
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In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age. |
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Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. |
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Boyle argued that only by laying hold of atomist ideas could the occult and teleological influence of the alchemists be removed from the subject. |
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In assessing the teleological argument, we can begin with the objection from uniqueness. |
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However, they serve as a stimulus to progress and in their own way reflect the teleological axis of every culture. |
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The teleological factor, a criterion for distinguishing between interpretative declarations and reservations. |
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The first requirement ensures different content ascriptions to those generated by benefit-based teleological theories. |
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This may be the difference between Cohen's deontology, concerned with duty for its own sake, and a teleological world view, concerned with the consequences of actions. |
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One version of the teleological argument will depend on the intelligibility of purposive explanation. |
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There is thus no need for any teleological interpretation of Article 8 by reference to Article 3 of the Treaty as Lufthansa alleged. |
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These books were teleological arguments for the being and attributes of God, and were used by Paley nearly a century later. |
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As paradigms lose their stability, the teleological issue of the perfectibility of our world takes a severe blow. |
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The integration or exclusion of utilitarian and deontic calculus and teleological considerations in practical reasoning. |
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Apocalyptic narratives of nations, immersed in teleological arguments, necessarily introduce the problem of majorities and minorities, of insiders and outsiders. |
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Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision. |
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It was thus this teleological justification that was, and still is, the Council's main source of legitimacy. |
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The pointy undergarment reached its teleological conclusion in 1990, when Gaultier designed the rocket cone bra for Madonna. |
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The Supreme Court of Canada is an invitation to a teleological interpretation, to an examination of objectives and context. |
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This teleological view of nature was common in antiquity and is crucial to the understanding of the Natural History. |
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Deontological theories thus stress the concepts of obligation, ought, duty, and right and wrong, while teleological theories lay stress on the good, the valuable, and the desirable. |
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The criteria or methods of legal interperetation most commonly used in Mexico are: the logical, the systematical, the authentical and the causal teleological. |
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Or, even, the despots which Greek etymological origin points to the landlord, the unique lord of the house, vanishing point of a characteristically teleological system. |
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According to Craig, Plato's cosmological argument is very brief in comparison with his teleological argument for the existence of God. |
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The consequentialist argument is thus essentially a moral argument, which is less determinate than the teleological argument. |
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If so, the teleological argument would retain its force in the face of our inability to explain evil. |
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Throughout the poem, Hopkins' focus is on design, but not the typical teleological argument from design. |
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Critics of causalism such as defenders of teleological theories of reasons-explanations may welcome Lowe's claim. |
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This is an irreducibly teleological concept. |
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Sehgal's mode of thought is relentlessly teleological. |
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Paley's teleology thus became the basis of the modern version of the teleological argument for the existence of God, also called the argument from design. |
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The second part contains a teleological argument. |
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The third claim, welfare eudaimonism, maintains that well-being is teleological, consisting in the fulfillment of our natures. |
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One class of such views defines teleological notions cybernetically and maintains that teleology in biology is appropriate insofar as biological systems are cybernetic systems. |
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But this objection misunderstands the teleological view. |
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Universalizable egoism is another familiar teleological theory. |
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On this, like on other issues, the Advisory Committee adopts an open, inclusive and dynamic approach based on a teleological interpretation of the Convention. |
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In practice, such a broad definition can lead to difficulties in applying the law, so that in academic literature a necessity for a teleological reduction is considered. |
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The main criticism made of the teleological notion of history is that it sees the current moment as the inevitable end point of previous historical change. |
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In short, a teleological interpretation of s. 41, which also takes into account other provisions of Part VII of the OLA, clearly indicates Parliament's intent to make this part executory. |
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Such a teleological view gave Aristotle cause to justify his observed data as an expression of formal design. |
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This was part of a medieval teleological understanding of nature in which all things have an intended role to play in a divine cosmic order. |
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Artificial selection is purposive where natural selection is not, though biologists often use teleological language to describe it. |
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The Affair had stirred in France a desire for the cathartic chiliasm of teleological redemption. |
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Finally, Patil offers a comparison of the Naiyayika argument to the Western cosmological and teleological arguments for the existence of a theistic god. |
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They are arranged in topical sections such as theistic perspectives of ultimate reality, the teleological argument for God, religious experience, and recent trends. |
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Everything exists for a purpose, goes Aristotle's teleological argument. |
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The eutaxiological argument so popular with Newton and his disciples, on the other hand, is logically simpler than the teleological one and hides no linguistic subtleties. |
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