Found 2 items, similar to teleology.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: teleology teleology n : (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
English → English (gcide) Definition: Teleology Teleology \Te`le*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?, teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf. F. t['e]l['e]ologie.] The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.), the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose. [1913 Webster]