purposiveness

The order and purposiveness of the world shows that there must be a Creator, as scripture had revealed.

Indeed, Aristotle argued that all nature reflects inherent purposiveness and direction.

In this view it is quite natural to find purposiveness at the level of the neurone or of the gene.

And what we mean by the Holy Ghost is not a blind, inarticulate purposiveness."

He must be regarded in His active relationship to the "kingdom", as spiritual personality revealed in spiritual purposiveness.

The purposiveness, consciousness and rigidity of the Palmers' Innate should be rejected."

Bloch believed that the world has an immanent purposiveness that leads to the evolution of complete from incomplete forms.

Halfway between an antique market and a high street, it foils the purposiveness of daily shopping in a maze of impractical digressions.

In behavior analysis, the adverbial distinction between purposefulness, having an internal determination and purposiveness, serving or effecting a useful function was made by Hayne Reese.

Kant's interest in the concept of suitability or expediency resulted in his investigation regarding knowledge of beauty and knowledge of natural purposiveness.

It is the root of the term "teleology," roughly the study of purposiveness, or the study of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions.

"For purposiveness means that we are more concerned with the remote future results of our actions than with their own quality or their immediate effects on our own environment.

Murmurs of awe, astonishment and wonder were hushed in the streets as the tall and strange being moved, with slow, deliberate purposiveness along the cobblestoned walkway where none of his kind had ever trodden before.

He came with the unappeasable purposiveness of evil things in dreams, right at Meric, his intentions unreadable, and Meric, as in a dream, couldn't move or cry out, though he felt something like terror.

People who hold this view say that the small variations by which life on this planet "evolved" from the lowest forms to Man were not due to chance but to the "striving" or "purposiveness" of a Life-Force.

Kant analyzed the concept of beauty as implying purposiveness without any particular purpose, and Cornell's boxes have that kind of beauty, since they convey a sense of meaningfulness while resisting the assignment of any specific meaning.

Men were going to and fro with an indefinable sense of purposiveness; there were Terrans among them, a few even in the leather dress of the spaceports-how do I know that when I see it, never having been there?

Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a 'national character', or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service - though the latter explanation, if understood historically rather than morally, is not completely without foundation.

It was strange; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness, but now that he looked back on it, all the logical connections had disappeared, like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away.

He appears to concede a certain formal objectivity to beauty in his doctrine of an appearance of purposiveness (Zweckmässigkeit) in the beautiful object, this being defined as its harmony with the cognitive faculties involved in an aesthetic judgment (imagination and understanding); a harmony the consciousness of which underlies our aesthetic pleasure.