"An intelligent universe evolves purposively over time, even if the purpose in question may for ever be beyond the grasp of the intellect," he writes.
The main emphasis in a definition of intelligence, then, is that it is not a cognitive or mental process per se but rather a selective combination of these processes that is purposively directed toward effective adaptation.
"It's a safe venue, you're going there purposively, it's climate-controlled," Dr. Foster said.
I read in snatched hours on trains, or late at night, or purposively and on a schedule, with pen in hand and a frown of concentration.
It would seem that in order to act purposively in our time, we need to be motivated by hope.
In the mid-1970s, this vision was purposively abandoned in favour of what Keith Joseph liked to call "real Conservatism": precisely the type of economic liberalism and social individualism Disraeli campaigned against.
And Shane Warne rolled purposively in.
Even after the Civil War, the S.B.C. remained defiantly Southern and purposively white.
"Jane Austen," whoever he/she was (or is), purposively used the name "Bennet" as a referent signifier to JonBenét Ramsey, thereby negotiating and prioritizing the space between conflicts of socialization and dystopian scenarios of corporeal tension.
Theists employing the teleological argument will draw attention to the order and stability of the cosmos, the emergence of vegetative and animal life, the existence of consciousness, morality, rational agents and the like, in an effort to identify what might plausibly be seen as purposively explicable features of the cosmos.
A judging God who has plans and acts purposively is a God to be obeyed and placated.
