Of course, many technologies are designed or refined with particular goals in mind, but here I am referring to a different and less deliberate shaping process, through which artifacts come to reflect and reproduce beliefs about the types of functions and ways of living and working that are important. (slaw.ca)
manipulation — etymologically, handling — means technical treatment of a given material with a particular goal in mind. (religion-online.org)
We can not expect that the laws of nature would make an exception in our particular case, or that they have a particular goal in mind. (religion-online.org)