Sentences with word «purposiveness»

It is worth noting, too, that Darwinism explains the seemingly purposiveness of organs and other inherited factors by natural selection operating between groups of individuals assumed to be striving to achieve various short - run objectives, as when the rabbit tries to mate or to escape the fox.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

Actually, it is not the conceptual valuation as such that constitutes purposiveness, but the integration of this valuation with the physical feeling from which it was derived.

Similarly, the primal purposiveness that pervades experience is rarely objectified or reflected upon within the experience.

Natural selection of accidentally favorable adaptations during a seemingly endless span of cosmic and biological time provides an account of organic life that appears to make any appeal to divine influence or purposiveness superfluous.

To biblical theologians and followers of Charles Hartshorne alike, the structures of purposiveness preclude the notions of classical perfection and of the God who, in his eternal completeness, lacks nothing.

It is enough for the purposes of my argument to show that societies exhibit in their behavior the same five necessary and sufficient conditions for purposiveness that I applied at the outset to individual behavior.

The majestic spectacle of this blind, inarticulate purposiveness thrusting its way upward and ever upward in an endless unity of differentiated achievements towards an ever increasing complexity of organization, towards spontaneity and spirituality, swept away all my old conception of a duty to Man as such.

In short they display intelligent purposiveness.

Could life and evolution possibly be the implementation of a divine purposiveness if they are carried along so prominently on a stream of chance happenings?

The universality of the aesthetic purposiveness of the cosmos does not diminish the value of each individual occasion by allowing it to be dissolved into the totality.

From the philosophical point of view, the central problem of ethology is the relation between purposiveness («purpose» here has the usual meaning — a striving after a future goal retained as some kind of an image or idea) and directiveness.

Such symbols may for some of us at least partially express what we feel obscurely in our primary perception as a universal purposiveness.

Through the attentive lens of the anthropologist, they argue that human deliberativeness and purposiveness go beyond maximizing rationality.

The artworks on display, are things — a term chosen to site the works in the realm of social relations rather than idealist speculation — whose purposiveness has run wild.

The reader must bear in mind that this finalism and purposiveness in being, and of being, does not imply any conscious striving or conscious knowledge at all: nor any principle of being existent within the material order distinct from matter.

It is in this sense that the aesthetic perspective surpasses the ethical in providing a scheme for understanding divine purposiveness.

Nevertheless, we can, through analysis, recognize that without the pervasive presence of purposiveness, experience would be very different indeed, and we can see that this purposiveness does not arise in the same way as the data of vision and hearing.

The metaphysical source of that purposiveness will not affect the scientific theory.

Without the purposiveness of the town planner and the architect, the brick laying process might still go on, but in an utterly random and haphazard way.

The more emphatically nature was denied any internality and purposiveness, the clearer it was that human minds are different from nature.

Human and institutional behavior both exhibit the formal characteristics of purposiveness; in particular, both have aims they seek to actualize.

There is law of birth, growth, and decline, the whole order of nature from the ultimate particles to the body of man is a relativity built upon finality and purposiveness.

It is presumed that things have a definite specific cycle of function, or purposiveness.

The Faith movement's perspective concerning the unity of created matter as one divine work across time and space offers a real insight into the purpose and purposiveness of all material being — ordered, controlled, directed and interrelated in a mathematical, physical, chemical, biological and, by definition, metaphysical manner.

The notion of «purposiveness» was mentioned in the preceding sentence.

The most complex machine will not exhibit any purposiveness, yet the determinist and the teleological arguments are intertwined into the very roots of nature.

Thus, to a great extent, theology gives the appearance of having evaded the attempt to relate nature to any divine purposiveness.

And it does so effortlessly, through artful design, while also conveying an unsettling ambiance as well as complex narrative and gameplay themes of transience and purposiveness.

Efficient markets and perpetual art fairs have eaten away at both — giving new meaning to Kant's idea of beauty as «purposiveness without a purpose.»