Dysteleology is the philosophical view that existence has no telos or final cause from purposeful design. The term `dysteleology` is a modern word invented and popularized by Ernst Haeckel. Dysteleology is an aggressive, yet optimistic, form of science-oriented atheism originally perhaps associated with Haeckel and his followers, but now perhaps.....
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study of purposeless organs; doctrine of purposelessness
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• (n.) The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.
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<biology> The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism. 'To the doctrine of dysteleology, or the denial of final causes, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessarily be fatal.'...
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Dys·te`le·ol'o·gy noun [ Prefix
dys- +
teleology .]
(Biol.) The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism. « To the doctrine of
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dysteleology 1. The study of apparently useless organs or parts. 2. A lack of purposefulness, or of a contribution to the final result. 3. The doctrine of purposelessness or of the absence of a final cause.
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(Gr. dus, bad; telos, end or purpose) The term for the forbidding and frustrating aspects of life (such as unfavorable environmental factors, organic maladaptations, the struggle for existence, disease, death, etc.) which make difficult, if not impossible, the theory that there are good purposes predominantly at work in the world. -- V.F.
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a doctrine denying the existence of a final cause or purpose. · the assumed absence of purpose in life or nature. · the evasion or frustration of a natural or normal function or purpose.
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