| Ruby | v1.5.0Sep 24th 2020 | (+16/-3) | ||
| Grognor | v1.4.0Mar 10th 2012 | (+49/-12) added alienness of evolution because teleology is one of the most pervasive and hard-to-counter failure modes of people new to evolutionary theory | ||
| PeerInfinity | v1.3.0Sep 28th 2009 | |||
| PeerInfinity | v1.2.0Sep 8th 2009 | (+18/-18) | ||
| PeerInfinity | v1.1.0Jun 11th 2009 | |||
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | v1.0.0Jun 11th 2009 | (+571) created page |
The study of things that happen for the sake of their future consequences.
Since nothing is ever actually the causal result of a future event, 'teleology' names a fallacy, that is, the fallacy of reasoning as if an event could be the result of a future event, its consequence.
A non-fallacious interpretation of teleology is as the study of things that happen because of their intended results, where the intention existed in an actual mind in the prior past, and so was causally able to bring about the event by planning and acting.
TheTeleology is the study of things that happen for the sake of their future consequences.