Quotes Tagged With :teleology

I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the existence....

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they....

The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of....

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation),....

Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller....

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two....

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a....

Among the things most characteristic of organisms--most distinctive of living as opposed to inorganic....

In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the....

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the....