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teleology
The doctrine that phenomena occur for a purpose. It was often used, from the 17th century on, as a theological argument in favor of pluralism, the argument being that God would not have gone to the trouble of creating uninhabited worlds. Among those to give prominence to teleological reasoning were Jacques Henri Bernadin de Saint-Pierre and John Locke. Opponents of it included Ludwig Büchner.
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