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Teleology (from Greek words telos, “end,” and logos, “reason, discourse”) is the study of processes in nature [Page 2172]as they are driven by their ends, goals, and purposes. This is diametrically opposed to a mechanistic explanation based only on cause–effect sequences ...

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