Sentence examples for teleological interpretation from inspiring English sources

Finally, one may adopt a teleological interpretation of the question ("why do chameleons change colors?" would thus be interpreted as "what is the color-changing mechanism for?").

They learned much from Descartes's critique of Empiricism; but, fearing that the new "mechanical" theories might undermine the religious world view, they supported (against Descartes) a teleological interpretation of natural processes.

And the desire to avoid anachronism might lead us to adopt the teleological interpretation of determination.

Students often enter introductory courses with an understanding of evolution that parallels that of pre-Darwinian biologists (Rudolph and Stewart 1998; Sandvik 2008), which, simply stated, consists of a teleological interpretation of the evolutionary relationships of species (Gee 2002).

Our results also suggest a teleological interpretation, namely that certain regulators of chromatin dynamics and transcription, such as HP1γ, may undergo functional pressures (for example Aurora A phosphorylation) to maintain the integrity of cell division so that their own epigenetic inheritance is reproducible from cell generation to cell generation.

Teleological interpretations and Christian expectations of salvation were superseded by notions of an open future and the belief in "worldly" progress.

Ladderized and unbalanced trees in the form of a cone (classical tree oriented vertically and upward) are prone to progressionist and teleological interpretations, more so if humans or primates are localized at the upper, or at the last right tip of the tree (so that evolution looks as if it occurs teleologically or linearly towards a human goal).

(I say more about this teleological reading below).

After a brief flurry of interest in the wake of the 'modern synthesis', during which the term 'teleonomy' was introduced to denote the specifically evolutionary interpretation of teleological language (Pittendrigh 1958), the ideas of function and goal directedness came to be regarded as relatively unproblematic by evolutionary biologists.

Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleological perspective; this personal interpretation has been criticised for a latent conservatism.

These interpretations of "teleological design" interacted in complex ways with Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Biblical concepts of creation (Sedley 2007).