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Definition of Finalism
1. the doctrine that all events are determined by ultimate purposes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finalism
Literary usage of Finalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bearing of the Evolutionary Theory on the Conception of God -: A Study by Ukichi Kawaguchi (1916)
"0 Radical finalism must also be rejected, and for the same reason. ... Radical
finalism is not, however, so rigid and fixed as radical mechanism. ..."
2. Modern Problems: A Discussion of Debatable Subjects by Oliver Lodge (1912)
"It is the trace of mechanism lingering in mechanical finalism that Bergson objects
to. Both mechanism and finalism are standpoints, ..."
3. Modern Problems: A Discussion of Debatable Subjects by Oliver Lodge (1912)
"It is the trace of mechanism lingering in mechanical finalism that Bergson objects
to. Both mechanism and finalism are standpoints, ..."
4. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"On the other hand, extreme finalism upholds the view that all that happens is
... Another form of extreme finalism is that which is characteristic of an ..."
5. A Criticism of Some Deterministic Systems in Their Relation to Practical by Jesse Herrmann (1914)
"The inadequacy of atomistic mechanism and theistic finalism, because of an ...
"But radical finalism is quite as unacceptable and for the same reason. ..."
6. A Realistic Universe: An Introd. to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"finalism. — finalism, as opposed to mechanism, has always taken the point of view
that we must judge evolution by its outcome, its last stages. ..."
7. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"His conscious purposive voluntarism constrains Professor Bergson to reject Radical
Mechanism, as also Radical finalism ie the carrying out of a preconceived ..."
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