Geology as a Metaphor in Graham Swift’s Ever After (1992) by Isabelle Roblin

“…In Ever After, Graham Swift’s fifth novel, Matthew Pearce, the main narrator’s ancestor, is a Victorian surveyor who chronicles in his Notebooks how his reading of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-1833) and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) shattered his vision of the world, opening up “epistemological fault lines” and “yawning fractures” in his “teleological understanding” of human life: “If Lyell is right”, he exclaims, “if the world existed so long without Man upon it, why should we suppose . . . that we occupy any special and permanent place in Creation?” …”
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The textbook myth: Slovene peasants as heroes of the glorious past by Jernej Kosi

“…It argues that the established textbook narrations on peasant uprisings greatly contribute to the hegemonic representation of affirmative, unilinear and teleological historical development of the Slovene nation, which ultimately implies an “unavoidable” establishment of Slovenia as a nation state in 1991.   …”
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Picturing Midlife: Aging and the Limits of Narrative in Carol Shields’s Larry’s Party by Sara Jamieson

“…Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s influential theorization of midlife and midlife fiction celebrates the sequential and teleological aspects of narrative as enabling a kind of life storytelling that characterizes the entry into middle age as progress toward an improved self. …”
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When shapes are more than shapes: perceptual, developmental, and neurophysiological basis for attributions of animacy and theory of mind by Sajjad Torabian, Emily D. Grossman

“…This transition from a teleological stance, asserting a goal-oriented interpretation to an agent's actions, to a mentalistic stance allows older children to reason about more complex actions guided by hidden beliefs. …”
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Time and Temporalities in Early Modern Chinese Islam by Dror Weil

“…The final part will show how Liu further articulated Time as a teleological construct in his effort to present Islam as relevant and significant for readers in China. …”
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Historiography and apocalypse, an intimate relationship? by Jerry Burkette

“…Specifically, the discursive and aesthetic constituents of these narratives appear importantly connected to certain teleologies, and their requisite ontologies, emplotted within a framework of prophecy-cum-apocalypse.  …”
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The Doctrine of “in Loco Parentis” in Anglo-Saxon Legal Systems and in the Republic of Latvia by Rihards Erdmanis, Ivans Jānis Mihailovs

“…The authors conduct a study using methods of interpreting the rules of law adopted in legal science: grammatical, historical, comparative, teleological method. An educational institution as a structure authorized by the state per se can be viewed as having an equivalent responsibility to that of a child’s parents. …”
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Hypothesizing and Refining Causal Models by Doyle, Richard J.

“…The constraints include: (1) a temporal and physical proximity requirement, (2) a set of abstract causal explanations for changes in physical systems in terms of dependences between quantities, and (3) a teleological assumption that dependences in designed physical systems are functions. …”
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The dynamics of 'systems building' : An analysis of process mutations by Paul, Rathindra Jurg

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The politics of Romanticism: Novalis and the White Rose by Raisbeck, J

“…Romanticism acted — if only uneasily and reductively — as a point of identification for the development of a narrative of the cultural nation under National Socialism and has continued to be subject to a simplistic teleological narrative of how Romanticism’s elements of irrationalism, antisemitism, and nationalism led to National Socialism. …”

Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi yang Memuat Keadilan Sosial dalam Pengujian Undang-Undang by Anna Triningsih, Oly Viana Agustine

“…Dari 10 isu konstitusional tersebut, dalam pertimbangan hukumnya Mahkamah lebih sering memilih menggunakan interpretasi gramatikal, interpretasi historis, interpretasi teleologis atau sosilologis dan interpretasi komparatif atau perbandingan. …”
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La Casa della storia europea: una controversa proposta museale per la storia d’Europa by Beatrice Tioli

“…The thesis I mean to verify is that the museum does not proposes a teleological narrative of the European history, although it clearly represents a “story of unity” and, in this way, it conveys a strong message in favour of a united Europe. …”
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What programs the size of animal cells? by Shixuan Liu, Shixuan Liu, Shixuan Liu, Ceryl Tan, Ceryl Tan, Mike Tyers, Anders Zetterberg, Ran Kafri, Ran Kafri

“…Lastly, we discuss a less-well explored teleological question: why does cell size matter and what is the functional importance of cell size control?…”
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The Role of the ICJ in the Development of International Law by Homayoon Habibi, Soodeh Shamloo

“…It contributes in development of international law inter alia by teleological interpretation of existing rules. On the other hand, even though the characterization of precedent or stare decisis may not apply to the decisions of the ICJ, the Court constantly refers to its precedent and thereby has promoted the importance of its judgments from an auxiliary to a real source of international law.…”
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Reflective Judgment's Potentials in the Formation of Juridical Nature in Kant by Ali Salmani, Saeed Hajrashidian

“…But such a transformation into the legal and historical nature is possible only if we pay attention to the power of reflective judgments which are contained of aesthetic and teleological judgments. Because it is the power of reflective judgment that provides Kant with the necessary tools to view the nature as a totality whose purpose is the realization of rights. …”
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INTERVIEW: GALIN TIHANOV by Galin TIHANOV

“…How do we move onwards from the strictures imposed by the birthmarks of modernity with its teleological rationale? I have written briefly on this in an article on the challenges literary history faces in the 21st century. …”
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Consultancy agreement between supervisory board members and the company whose activities they supervise by Arsen Bačić

“…Furthermore, the author explains and elaborates the consequences of extensive teleological interpretation of the supervisory boards' decision concerning the consultancy agreement, the legal status of the agreement in the period before the ratification and the implications of performance of the agreement before the ratification. …”
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REQUIREMENTS FOR A GENERAL INTERPRETATION THEORY by Anda Laura Lungu Petruescu

“…A general interpretation theory must assure the interpretation of the causalities among the economic phenomena and processes- causal interpretation; the interpretation of the correlations and dependencies among indicators- normative interpretation; the interpretation of social and communicational processes in economic organizations- social and communicational interpretation; the interpretation of the community status of companies- transsocial interpretation; the interpretation of the purposes of human activities and their coherency – teleological interpretation; the interpretation of equilibrium/ disequilibrium from inside the economic systems- optimality interpretation. …”
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Polish Vector in Politics of Vladimir Monomakh and His Heirs: from the Lyubech Congress to the “Pereyaslavl Crisis” by A. V. Korenevskiy, N. D. Nikolaeva

“…An attempt is made to consider the relationship between Russia and Poland of the indicated period outside the teleological approach. The authors provide evidence that the thesis of the religious factor as decisive in Russian-Polish relations does not correspond to the political realities of the 10- 30s of the XII century. …”
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Human-Rights Approach to Water in the European Union on the 10th Anniversary of the ‘Right2Water’ Initiative by Olga Hałub-Kowalczyk

“…Regarding the analysis of legal acts, the rules of legal hermeneutics were applied, esp. grammar and teleological interpretation. …”
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