Teleophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Teleophobia is a noun meaning (philosophy) Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.
Meaning
(philosophy) Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.
Example Sentences
[…]the teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences.
In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phobosophy, philosophobia, ideophobia, phobophobia, phobe, panophobia.
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