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Teleology
n.The doctrine of the final causes of thingsn.the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena
of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only
by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical
explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine
of adaptation to purpose.