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TELEOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does teleology mean?
• TELEOLOGY (noun)
The noun TELEOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
Familiarity information: TELEOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("teleology" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Derivation:
teleological (of or relating to teleology)
teleologist (advocate of teleology)
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