"teleology" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌtiː.liˈɒ.lə.dʒi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-teleology.wav Forms: teleologies [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”), genitive τέλεος (téleos), and λόγος (lógos, “word, speech, discourse”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷel-}}, {{uder|en|grc|τέλος||purpose}} Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} teleology (countable and uncountable, plural teleologies)
  1. (philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Philosophy Translations (study of the purpose of occurrences): teleologia [feminine] (Catalan), 目的論 (Chinese Mandarin), 目的论 (mùdìlùn) (Chinese Mandarin), teleologie [feminine] (Czech), teleologie [feminine] (Dutch), doelmatigheidsleer [feminine] (Dutch), teleologia (Finnish), tarkoitusoppi (Finnish), téléologie [feminine] (French), Teleologie [feminine] (German), teleológia (Hungarian), teileolaíocht [feminine] (Irish), teleologia [feminine] (Italian), телеологија (teleologija) [feminine] (Macedonian), teleologia (Occitan), teleologia [feminine] (Polish), teleologia [feminine] (Portuguese), teleologie [feminine] (Romanian), телеоло́гия (teleológija) [feminine] (Russian), teleología [masculine] (Spanish), erek bilimi (Turkish), teleoloji (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-teleology-en-noun-O0AkRtNj Categories (other): English undefined derivations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 20 40 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 25 35 39 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'study of the purpose of occurrences': 44 27 28
  2. (by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-teleology-en-noun-5eaU2XSm Categories (other): English undefined derivations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 20 40 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 25 35 39
  3. The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (use of purpose to explain occurrence): teleologia [feminine] (Catalan), 目的論 (Chinese Mandarin), 目的论 (mùdìlùn) (Chinese Mandarin), teleologie [feminine] (Czech), teleologie [feminine] (Dutch), teleologinen selitys (Finnish), teileolaíocht [feminine] (Irish), телеологија (teleologija) [feminine] (Macedonian), teleologia [feminine] (Portuguese), телеоло́гия (teleológija) [feminine, masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-teleology-en-noun-DKgnKhzU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 28 48 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 20 40 40 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 24 28 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 29 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 25 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 26 29 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 26 27 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 26 27 47 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 26 25 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 25 35 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 25 26 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 25 30 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 24 27 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 29 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 26 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 26 26 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 24 26 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 25 26 49 Disambiguation of 'use of purpose to explain occurrence': 19 20 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: teleologic, teleological, teleologically, teleologist, teleophobia

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "teleologic"
    },
    {
      "word": "teleological"
    },
    {
      "word": "teleologically"
    },
    {
      "word": "teleologist"
    },
    {
      "word": "teleophobia"
    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Philosophy"
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Monte Ransom Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology:",
          "text": "The received intellectual tradition has it that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, revolutionary philosophers began to curtail and reject the teleology of the medieval and scholastic Aristotelians, abandoning final causes in favor of a purely mechanistic model of the Universe.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences."
      ],
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        ],
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          "study",
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        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
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          "design"
        ],
        [
          "natural",
          "natural"
        ],
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          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ]
      ],
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        "(philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Paul A. Rahe, Truths You Cannot Utter:",
          "text": "In short, what every student of biology knows – that within nature there is a teleology having to do with the survival of the species which underpins the distinction between the two sexes and produces between them a natural affinity for one another – no surgeon who knows what is good for him may now say.",
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        }
      ],
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        "An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena."
      ],
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        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
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          "natural",
          "natural"
        ]
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        "(by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence."
      ],
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        [
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          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ],
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          "explain",
          "explain"
        ]
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˌtiː.liˈɒ.lə.dʒi/",
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        "UK"
      ]
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "目的論"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "mùdìlùn",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "目的论"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "doelmatigheidsleer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "tarkoitusoppi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "téléologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "teleológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teileolaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "teleologija",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "телеологија"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "teleológija",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "телеоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teleología"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "erek bilimi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "study of the purpose of occurrences",
      "word": "teleoloji"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "word": "目的論"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mùdìlùn",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "word": "目的论"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "word": "teleologinen selitys"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teileolaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "teleologija",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "телеологија"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "teleologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "teleológija",
      "sense": "use of purpose to explain occurrence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "телеоло́гия"
    }
  ],
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    "teleology"
  ],
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}

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