Meaning of "teleologist" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TELEOLOGIST

teleologist  [ˌtiːlɪˈɒlədʒɪst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TELEOLOGIST

Teleologist is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TELEOLOGIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Teleology

A teleology is any philosophical account that holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning that — analogous to purposes found in human actions — nature inherently tends toward definite ends. Teleology was explored by Plato and Aristotle, by Saint Anselm during the 11th century AD, in the late 18th century by Immanuel Kant as a regulative principle in his Critique of Judgment and by Carl Jung. It was fundamental to the speculative philosophy of Hegel. A thing, process, or action is teleological when it is for the sake of an end, i.e., a telos or final cause. In general, it may be said that there are two types of final causes, which may be called intrinsic finality and extrinsic finality. ▪ A thing or action has an extrinsic finality when it is for the sake of something external to itself. In a way, people exhibit extrinsic finality when they seek the happiness of a child. If the external thing had not existed that action would not display finality. ▪ A thing or action has an intrinsic finality when it is for none other than its own sake.

Definition of teleologist in the English dictionary

The definition of teleologist in the dictionary is an advocate of the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose or design in the universe, and esp that this provides proof of the existence of a Designer. Other definition of teleologist is an advocate of the belief that natural phenomena have a predetermined purpose and are not determined by mechanical laws.

TRANSLATION OF TELEOLOGIST

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The translations of teleologist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «teleologist» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 目的论
• Translator English - Spanish: teleologist
• English: teleologist
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• Translator English - Bengali: teleologist
• Translator English - French: téléologiste
• Translator English - Malay: Teleologist
• Translator English - German: Teleologe
• Translator English - Japanese: teleologist
• Translator English - Korean: teleologist
• Translator English - Javanese: Teleologist
• Translator English - Vietnamese: teleologist
• Translator English - Tamil: teleologist
• Translator English - Marathi: टेलोलोलॉजिस्ट
• Translator English - Turkish: teleologist
• Translator English - Italian: teleologista
• Translator English - Polish: teleologist
• Translator English - Ukrainian: teleologist
• Translator English - Romanian: teleologist
• Translator English - Greek: teleologist
• Translator English - Afrikaans: teleologist
• Translator English - Swedish: teleologist
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TELEOLOGIST»

Discover the use of teleologist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to teleologist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Reasons for Belief

truths – and this conative element, the teleologist's challenge goes, is doing all the motivation work in the above example. So what motivates my belief that he is unfaithful isn't the belief about the evidence on its own, but the desire to believe ...

Andrew Reisner, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, 2011

Refined Consequentialism: The Moral Theory of Richard A. ...

Here, Broad claimed that the teleologist accepts and asserts the logical ought, a use of this term that Broad earlier concluded is deontological.37 Has Broad's division between teleological and deontological ethical theories broken down?

Patrick Andrew Tully, 2006

Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

So far from being a 'Teleologist in the fullest sense of the word,' we should deny that he is a Teleologist in the ordinary sense at all” (p. 86). To deny that the argument to design has force—a denial that was crucial to Huxley's strategy— you ...

Michael RUSE, Michael Ruse, 2009

Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality

Although there are important similarities between the situation of the field teleologist and those of her semantic cousins, there is nevertheless a striking difference between their problems. The problem confronting the teleologist is far more ...

Mark Okrent, 2007

Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality

Second, even if it were true that the teleologist thought that the rationality of intending to perform ai depends on the desirability of the consequences of having this attitude, it is not clear why the teleologist would be committed to the more ...

Douglas W. Portmore, 2011

Gray Matters: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Fodor can now saddle the teleological theory with basically the very same problem, the question arises why the teleologist can't just adapt Fodor's own reply to the problem. (That reply invoked perceptual constancy considerations to deny the ...

Sanford Goldberg, Andrew Pessin, 1997

How Should We Live?: An Introduction to Ethics

You also sided with the teleologist if you decided to give the food to the scientist because he would probably do more good with his life. Traditionally, two major types of ethical systems have dominated the field: deontological (from the Greek  ...

Louis Pojman, 2004

On Transparency: A Response to Nishi Shah's "How Truth ...

The teleologist ought not claim that the “belief-constituting disposition to be influenced by truth-regarding factors” is so strong such as to rule out the causal influence of any other factor; this would leave her forced to say implausibly that any ...

Emily Adams Given, 2007

Value and Justification: The Foundations of Liberal Theory

The thoroughgoing teleologist, then, aims to justify the code of public morality solely by showing that the code advances value. But valuings do not possess the requisite degree of priority and independence vis-avis principles of right for this ...

Gerald F. Gaus, 1990

Five Types of Ethical Theory

Sidgwick is predominantly a Monistic Teleologist who cannot decide between the Egoistic and the Non-Egoistic form of the theory. But he accepts a few highly abstract Deontological principles about the right distribution of haPPiness.

C.D. Broad, 2014

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TELEOLOGIST»

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Review: Marianela | MBS Productions | Stone Cottage Theatre …

These philosophical concepts are in turn tied to the teleological notion that god arranges everything for the best. A teleologist believes that an action or process ... «TheaterJones Performing Arts News, Apr 14»

The belief patterns of Saivite Tamils in Malaysia

Scientific reasoning as to whether Siva worshippers are cosmologists, palaeontologists or teleologists can be discussed separately in another article. Death is a ... «Free Malaysia Today, Oct 12»

Konrad Lorenz nazistiska förflutna

Konrad Lorenz ideologi är snarare katolsk än deterministisk, snarare teleologist än darwinist. Läser man vad han skriver, utan förutfattade glasögon, har vi ... «Forskning & Framsteg, Sep 09»

Binele, raul si liberul arbitru

Ca Platon, si Aristotel interpreteaza teleologist Binele: "daca exista un scop al actelor noastre pe care-l urmarim pentru el insusi, iar pe celelalte numai in ... «CrestinOrtodox.ro, Mar 09»