Sentence examples for purpose or design from inspiring English sources

"But we can't let it replace the domestic agenda whether it is by purpose or design.

It would be to abdicate human intelligence, which would thus refuse to think and to seek a solution for its problems". Note that in this quotation the word "finality" is a philosophical term synonymous with final cause, purpose or design.

These kosmoi are impermanent, and are not accounted for by purpose or design.

Given any sort of biological purpose or design, it might fail to be fulfilled.

He differed from Kant, however, in seeing the Will as the source of all our endless suffering, a blind striving power without ultimate purpose or design (The World as Will and Representation, §56 p. 310 and §57 p. 311).

Not all biobanks have the same purpose or design.

These (well, their opposites) are the prerequisites for finding meaning, purpose or designing your life for the better but is that really so?

Then, system dissimilation is the tendency that a system undergoes an apparent or hidden destructive change against its original purposes or designed availability.

It is in this context that Philo is understood to "reverse" his opposition to the design argument and concede to Cleanthes "that the works of nature bear a great analogy" to human productions and that a "purpose, intention, or design strikes everywhere the most careless, the most stupid thinker" (D, 12.2/214, 12.6/216 7 – my emphasis; cp. NHR, Intro.1, 15.1).

"Labor Day without demonstrations, parades and meetings will, as sure as the sun rises and sets, lose its distinctive characteristic and simply become a holiday for jollification, without other purpose, design or result," he wrote in an A.F.L. publication issued before Labor Day in 1907.

The payload will be delivered to low Earth orbit, per the mission parameters, but we don't know anything else about its purpose, design, or intended mission, because it's all classified.