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Definition of Teleonomic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Teleonomic
1. 1. Pertaining to teleonomy. 2. In psychology, pertaining to those patterns of behaviour that are a function of an inferred purpose or motive; e.g., a child's behaviour pattern may be classified teleonomically by an observer as attention-getting. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teleonomic
Literary usage of Teleonomic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (1894)
"The necessity of the day of judgment is a teleonomic force active from the
beginning in the growth of the kingdom, being rooted both in the ethical nature ..."
2. Philosophy, Humanity and Ecology: Vol. 1: Philosophy of Nature edited by J. Odera Oruka (1996)
"Culture is not conducive to the survival of Homo sapiens, for it destroys the
teleonomic animality (biological normality) of the species in the name of the ..."
3. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"[38] J. Monod and F. Jacob, "General conclusions: teleonomic mechanisms in cellular
metabolism, growth, and differentiation," in Cold Spring Harbor ..."
4. A Bible for a Thoughtfull Skeptic by Thom Pain Jr., Thom Pain (2005)
"In fact, the welling up of any of the latter motivations, for example, one of
those which activate a motor pattern for its "serious," teleonomic function, ..."
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