0 (in philosophy) the belief that everything has a special purpose or use --
It conjures up hated notions of subjectivity, teleology, and wishy-washy folk psychology.
This bold revisionist backlash against the confident teleologies and polarities embedded in older models of 'modernization ' now represents something approaching the current historical consensus.
The debate was most commonly interpreted as being between teleology (function) and morphology (structure, or the relationship of parts to whole).
A certain teleology is present and there is much reading back into the past.
Interpretation risks falling victim to teleology if too much attention is paid to long-term trends.
In part, this is because whiggish teleologies presume rights are immortal and so cannot appear at any specific point in time.
There is no teleology about organisms: they simply exist, and their purpose in life is to go on existing.
The first phase of the next stage is to explore certain potential tensions with the workings of artificial teleology.
