Sentence examples for natural purpose from inspiring English sources

The idea of the outer or relative purposiveness of one natural thing for another, which is made possible by the idea of a natural purpose, in turn makes possible the idea of nature as a system of purposes, where everything in nature is teleologically connected to everything else through relations of outer purposiveness.

Kant puts this by saying that the concept of a natural purpose "necessarily leads to the idea of all of nature as a system in accordance with the rule of purposes" (§67, 379), but he also puts the point more weakly by saying that the step from the idea of a natural purpose to that of nature as a whole as a system of purposes is one which we "may" [dürfen] make (§67, 380).

Boobs are everywhere – people only object when they are used for their normal and natural purpose".

Again, he drew upon Aristotle, who held that each thing has its own natural purpose or end.

Some achieve colour patterns that are so vivid and complex that it is hard to imagine that they serve any natural purpose.

It is because our fundamental commitments are not given that we can bind ourselves to an ideal rather than a natural purpose.

Organisms, in other words, are "natural purposes," or naturally occurring ensembles of parts purposefully fitted and working in unity.

Objective material purposiveness corresponds to the purposiveness displayed both by organisms qua "natural purposes" (see Section 3.3) and by arrangements of natural things or processes which stand to one another in means-end relations (see Section 3.5).

(Kant sometimes says that they are natural purposes, and sometimes only that they must be "regarded" or "considered" as natural purposes).

Kant thinks that this is the case in particular for organisms, which are "natural purposes" (see Section 3.3 below).

Other discussions of the Analytic's treatment of organisms as natural purposes include Zumbach (1984), Illetterati (2014), Šustar (2014) and Goy (2014a).