finalism

finalism

美 ['fa?n?l?z?m] 　英 ['fa?n?l?z?m]

• 網絡目的論；終極目的論；終極論

英漢解釋

n.	1. in philosophy, the belief or proposition that all events are determined by their final causes

例句

It was only in the modern era that the natural sciences in all their fields substituted causal research for finalism.

只有在現代，自然科學的所有領域的因果關系研究才替代了那些終極論。