purposiveness

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And Lindsey wonders why anyone would welcome a world devoid of striving, ambition and “future-oriented purposiveness of any sort.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

“The people demand clarity of vision and purposiveness of action.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2022

With the penetrating clarity common to the slightly deranged, and with an air of bustling purposiveness, Perot has about him a kind of gravitas that appears to transmute political banalities into profound insights.

From Time Magazine Archive

An Aristotelian could never argue like this: Aristotle himself did not believe the universe had a creator, and his medieval successors thought that purposiveness was part of the very fabric of nature.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But in these writings his main argument is that of his concluding chapter: the spontaneous adaptiveness of the organism, which nullifies all contingent theories to explain the purposiveness in ontogeny and phylogeny.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf