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Definition of Purposiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purposiveness
Literary usage of Purposiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"Of the relative as distinguished from the inner purposiveness of nature Experience
leads our Judgment to the concept of an objective and material ..."
2. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"Of the relative as distinguished from the inner purposiveness of nature I Experience
leads our Judgment to the concept of 'an objective and material ..."
3. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"Extent of Reflex Phenomena The reflex phenomena bear upon them the mark of
purposiveness. As regards the oblongata reflexes, this characteristic appears at ..."
4. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"§4. Purposefulness and Purposive- ness in Human Behaviour. § 5. purposiveness and
Purpose- fulness in Animal Behaviour. § 6. ..."
5. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"4. Purposefulness and Purposive- ness in Human Behaviour. § 5. purposiveness and
Purpose- fulness in Animal Behaviour. § 6. ..."
6. A History of Philosophy with Especial Reference to the Formation and by Wilhelm Windelband (1893)
"Natural purposiveness. in dependence upon the theories of Rousseau and Herder,
a dependence which follows from the antithesis between those authors. ..."
7. A History of Philosophy: With Especial Reference to the Formation and by Wilhelm Windelband (1901)
"Natural purposiveness. A. Stadler, Kant's Teleologie. Berlin, 1874. ...
formulation of the antithesis of Nature and Freedom, of necessity and purposiveness ..."
8. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"Thought as Purposive Volition The central principle of Pragmatism is "the
purposiveness of our thought and the teleological character of its methods" ..."
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