purposiveness

purposiveness englanniksi

1. The state or condition of being purposive.

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2. 1853, (w), ''Principles of Human Physiology,'' Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 5th American and 4th Enlarged London Edition, Chapter 14, p.(nbs)675,https://archive.org/details/principlesofhuma00carprich

These reflex actions of the Spinal Cord have much more regularity and apparent ''purposiveness'' in the lower Vertebrata, approaching in this respect to the reflex actionso fhte ganglionic column of Articulata, than they have in Man.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1943|author=C. S. Lewis|title=Perelandra|location=London|publisher=The Bodley Head|chapter=7|page=102|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20141201/html.php

4. 1963, Walter Cerf (translator), ''Analytic of the Beautiful from (w)'' by (w), Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Third Moment, §(nbs)10, p.(nbs)24,https://archive.org/details/analyticofbeauti00kantrich

If the concept of an object is regarded as the cause of the object (as the real source of its possibility), then that object is a purpose; and purposiveness (..) is the causality of a ''concept'' with respect to its ''object''.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=Gerald J. Hughes|title=The Nature of God|chapter=5|page=129|publisher=Routledge|location=London