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finalism
[ fahyn-l-iz-uhm ]
noun
- the doctrine or belief that all events are determined by their purposes or goals.
finalism
/ ˈڲɪəˌɪə /
noun
- philosophy the doctrine that final causes determine the course of all events
Derived Forms
- ˌھԲˈپ, adjective
Example Sentences
The theory we shall put forward in this book will therefore necessarily partake of finalism to a certain extent.”
M. Bergson's form of finalism depends upon his conception of life.
The theory we shall put forward in this book will therefore necessarily partake of finalism to a certain extent.
The error of radical finalism, as also that of radical mechanism, is to extend too far the application of certain concepts that are natural to our intellect.
But the truth is that there is a surreptitious passing from one of these two meanings to the other, a flight for refuge to the first whenever one is about to be caught in flagrante delicto of finalism by employing the second.
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