Exempel på teleological

• Of course, the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof.

• The European Court's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological, that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose.

• In ethics, teleological theories such as utilitarianism claim that actions should be judged by the goodness or badness of their consequences.

• Their connection was purely mechanical, rather than teleological.

• Though both egalitarian and teleological interpretations of his argument seem initially plausible, both have problems.

• The metaphor of the vanishing point could be applied to all teleological works.

• In this sense attachment is a skill, one which is acquired in relation to a specific caregiver encoded into a teleological model of behavior.

• Avoiding essentialist and teleological assumptions, we attune to a contingent interplay of aspirations and provisional outcomes that could yield a dynamic not under anyone's control.

• And therefore teleological explanations in terms of biological advantage have no place in gestalt theory.

• The second difficulty with cooperative utilitarianism also flows from its deep structure, but here its teleological aspect.

• Classifications based on race into ' folk medicine ' versus ' indigenous medicine ' are based on teleological dichotomy.

• Moreover, "progress" and "modernity" substituted for the lost teleological or eschatological perspective of the future.

• Perhaps the strangeness of this trajectory becomes less mysterious, less portentous, when we realise that this trajectory is simply teleological.

• I particularly remember his lecture attacking the use of teleological statements during scientific discussions.

• This teleological element is the ultimate safeguard in process models of informed consent.

• If the proponent of comparative teleological desert really cared about rewarding bad behaviour, he would favour the second outcome.

• Every doctrine that asserts the uniform relationship of man to a teleological world order must also assert the determined character of the human will.

• Confident teleological assertions are now in shorter supply.