teleologies

The Cold War had contained two teleologies, one of which, in 1989 and the period soon after, seemed to have won.

Scott Malcomson: Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics 2009

What Foucault does find in Nietzsche to share is a genealogy that stands in opposition to a history that bases itself on "the metahistoric unfolding of ideal significations and vague teleologies" (1004-5).

Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality 2006

One function of all this evolved cognitive machinery is to impute teleologies -- goals and purposes -- to Other Minds in the world.

Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief Michael Turton 2006

As we shall see, these teleologies, and the belief in Other Minds, form the basis for the beliefs in the supernatural so widespread in human society.

Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006

One function of all this evolved cognitive machinery is to impute teleologies -- goals and purposes -- to Other Minds in the world.

Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006

As we shall see, these teleologies, and the belief in Other Minds, form the basis for the beliefs in the supernatural so widespread in human society.

Ghost Month, Teleology, Cognition, and Belief Michael Turton 2006

As a result, we no longer experience a strong sense of teleology in worldly events, but, instead, we are confronted with a manifold of differences and partial teleologies that can only be judged aesthetically.

Postmodernism Aylesworth, Gary 2005

Now this sublimated form of the teleological argument, it will be remembered, I denoted a metaphysical teleology, in order sharply to distinguish it from all previous forms of that argument, which, in contradistinction I denoted scientific teleologies.

A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871

Now this sublimated form of the teleological argument, it will be remembered, I denoted a metaphysical teleology, in order sharply to distinguish it from all previous forms of that argument, which, in contradistinction I denoted scientific teleologies.

Thoughts on Religion George John Romanes 1871

Strangest Everything p. 43 - A ballad of teleologies -

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