telos

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Known as "temporary lodgings", or telos, they provide some much-needed privacy to young couples living with their parents.

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  • Final causes are sometimes called “purposes,” but telos or “End” need not be consciously purposeful. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • As referenced here, it also presumes that the primary telos of marriage is reproduction, which is patently absurd. —  GetReligion
  • Newsweek declares its opposition to fair, honest, balanced reporting at Live the Trinity December 10, 2008, at 5: 30 pm it also presumes that the primary telos of marriage is reproduction, which is patently absurd. —  GetReligion
  • Though I call for stop signs, what New Haven really needs is to remember what their streets are for and whom they serve, to rediscover their telos, so to speak. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
  • Plato and Aristotle both argued that nature is teleological, a term that comes from the Greek telos —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Greek; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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