nonteleological

A nonteleological explanation would still involve creating symbolic messages (codon sequences) with associated meaning (proteins).

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

A nonteleological explanation would still involve creating symbolic messages (codon sequences) with associated meaning (proteins).

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

So far, it seems that nonteleological inquiry is doing a pretty good job of destroying the RM + NS paradigm all by itself.

Demarcation as Politics 2006

One might suppose that God set up a universe with the capacity to evolve into a world like ours without having to meddle subsequently, but the existence of any God at all completely negates the atheistic, nonteleological, accidental philosophy.

Courting the Theists 2005

"Normal", after all, has both teleological and nonteleological senses.

Qualia Tye, Michael 2007

But on a completely nonteleological view of nature it seems as hard to see why animals especially pursue their own or any good

Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

Rousseau quickly pointed out that Locke, in his eagerness to find a simple or automatic solution to the political problem, made nature do much more than he had a right to expect a mechanical, nonteleological nature to do.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Rousseau quickly pointed out that Locke, in his eagerness to find a simple or automatic solution to the political problem, made nature do much more than he had a right to expect a mechanical, nonteleological nature to do.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Biologists (Lewontin, 1961; Slobodkin, 1964) have interpreted evolution in game theoretic terms, in spite of the difficulty for a nonteleological biology to use the purposeful orientation of game theory.

GAME THEORY OSKAR MORGENSTERN 1968

For most of the thought of this period, whether teleological or nonteleological, tended to eliminate the contingent in favor of the necessary in its theories of causation, and in the study of man to regard human nature as a universal, essentially the same regardless of the partic - ular social context in which it might find itself.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas THOMAS COLE 1968