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What does teleological mean?

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  1. Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.
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The first requirement ensures different content ascriptions to those generated by benefit-based teleological theories.
So it is very hard to see how the teleological argument, any more than the cosmological, can overturn the argument from evil.
Paley advances the teleological argument from design founded on the unity and adaptability of created things.
Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested.
In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age.
Apocalyptic narratives of nations, immersed in teleological arguments, necessarily introduce the problem of majorities and minorities, of insiders and outsiders.

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