]> 2026-05-26T06:39:39+02:00 Annotation:Text:Teleology and the Concepts of Causation/Hphktpevrs 248 en ^"permissions":^"read":ӶӺ,"update":ӶӺ,"delete":ӶӺ,"admin":ӶӺ°,"user":^"id":6,"name":"Sarah Oberbichler"°,"id":"Hphktpevrs","ranges":Ӷ^"start":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/pӶ5Ӻ","startOffset":1945,"end":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/pӶ5Ӻ","endOffset":3052°Ӻ,"quote":"Such goal-directed behavior can not only be observed and documented in experiments with animals, but we encounter it innumerable times in our everyday experience. There are, for instance, the conscious or unconscious accommodations we have to make – and make quite successfully – in the thousands of trivial routines that are indispensable in our way of living, such as retrieving the toothpaste that has fallen behind the wash basin, looking up the telephone number of a person we want to meet, locating a book on a shelf, finding our misplaced car keys, negotiating the stairs to the garage during a power failure, etc., etc. In all these cases, we know what we want, we have a clear-cut goal, and we usually succeed in attaining it. It is also clear that it is not some future event that is guiding us, but rather experiences we have gathered in the past. \nHence, it was unfortunate, to say the least, that the term teleological was indiscriminately applied to the explanation of actions that are in no way determined by something that lies in the future, something that still awaits to be experienced.","highlights":Ӷ^"jQuery321096051066034122692":^°°,^"jQuery321096051066034122692":^°°,^"jQuery321096051066034122692":^°°Ӻ,"text":"","order":"mw-content-text","category":"Argumentation2","data_creacio":1576064584061° 2019-12-11T12:43:04Z 2458829.0299074 2019-12-11T11:43:08Z 2458828.988287 Text:Teleology and the Concepts of Causation/Hphktpevrs