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Definition of Telesis
1. planned progress [n TELESES]
Medical Definition of Telesis
1. A goal to be attained by planned conduct. Origin: G. Telos, end, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telesis
Literary usage of Telesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to Sociology by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1917)
"Social telesis. Upon the basis of adequate working facts, any community ...
Social telesis refers to the process whereby groups can accelerate their own ..."
2. A Text-book of Sociology by James Quayle Dealey, Lester Frank Ward (1905)
"SOCIAL progress is either genetic or telic. individual Progress below the human
plane is altogether genetic telesis- and is called development. ..."
3. Sociology: Its Development and Applications by James Quayle Dealey (1920)
"telesis in Education.—It is essential in the first place that the mind grasp the
importance of a telic policy as against a policy of drift, ..."
4. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1917)
"Individual telesis. Contributions to Social Philosophy, XI History.—This paper
consists mainly of my eleventh Hartford lecture entitled: Telic Progress, ..."
5. The Concept Standard: A Historical Survey of what Men Have Conceived as by Anne Mary Nicholson (1910)
"... This consciousness of the insufficiency of experience is the telesis that is
manifested in experience by man's continual striving to reach an ideal. ..."
6. The Bookman (1899)
"Its effects are stated as follows: "Applied to me, individual telesis has the effect
... Collective telesis, guidance of the social will. by the collective ..."
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