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So, if phenomenal character is a certain sort of teleo-representational content, then Swampman has no experiences and no qualia.
Qualia Tye, Michael 2007
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At first the distinction was between dentological terms and teleological terms, and the question of their relation was expressed as whether deontological statements presupposed teleo - logical statements — that is, whether ought-assertions were meaningful only if you assumed certain purposes in the background.
RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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Insofar as such doctrines are not specifically teleo - logical but simply a form of historical determinism, and insofar as they tend to minimize the importance of communities and social conditioning in the creation of man's civilized traits, they have parallels in Hellen - istic thought outside the teleological schools.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas THOMAS COLE 1968
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The dominant model now is creative emergence within a temporalistic, teleo - logical reality guided and directed in different degrees by a God whose very being is involved with that of the world.
CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968
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Exceptions are spao and chalao among a verbs, and among e verbs aineo, kaleo, teleo.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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No better illustration of this can be afforded than by the word ` ` Talisman, '' derived from the Greek verb ` ` teleo, '' which means, primarily, to accomplish, or bring into effect.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900
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