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Перевод: teleological

[прилагательное]
телеологический

Тезаурус:

1. This functionalist, teleological aim is inappropriate for the systematic analysis borrowed from structural linguistics.
2. Of course, the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof, but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and cannot be lightly dismissed.
3. The famous palaeolithic paintings found in caves such as that at Lascaux in the Dordogne have been interpreted as evidence that, at least implicitly, people were operating 20,000 or more years ago with teleological intent in terms of past, present, and future.
4. This religion, known as Zoroastrianism, involved a teleological interpretation of time.
5. To be sure there were important differences: the male was more perfectly developed than the female because hotter; but these were differences conceived on a hierarchical, teleological model of sexual development.
6. When one looks at biological materials one is impressed with the enormous care which Nature seems to take over the interfaces when she is being, as it were, teleological.
7. Quite an appealing argument is a teleological one - quite invalid, of course, but valuable for all that.
8. They cannot risk their freedom by authorizing a standard of value to define what is to be maximized by a teleological principle of justice.
9. In the earlier theory man is separated from woman as different stages in a teleological development.
10. Instead of adopting the cyclical idea of time, the Jews are said to have believed in a linear concept, based in their case on a teleological idea of history as the gradual revelation of God's purpose.
11. Federalism in its German form betrays a highly teleological view of politics, and its theorists arrogate to themselves assumptions and imperatives which are at best matters for the Church, but can never be pronounced on by politicians.
12. The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project, it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal.
13. One would have thought that Marxism and Lacanism would inhabit wholly disparate worlds of thought; the former is rationalistic and teleological, whereas for Lacan, as Bowie says, "arguments directed towards a terminus are falsehoods".