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Teleology (wikipedia.org)
3 points by downboots 9 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment




The example they give in the introduction isn't actually right. The purpose of an acorn is to become an acorn again. It's a cyclic structure so it's teleology isn't as simple as stated. More generally, all biological organisms really have only one telos, reproduction/replication.



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