Teleology vs Aetiology - What's the difference?
teleology | aetiology |
(philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.
(by extension) An instance of such a design or purpose, usually in natural phenomena.
* 2011 , Paul A. Rahe,
The use of a non-natural purpose or design to explain an occurrence.
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
The study of causes or causation.
(medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
As nouns the difference between teleology and aetiology
is that teleology is the study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences while aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.teleology
English
(wikipedia teleology)Noun
(teleologies)Truths You Cannot Utter:
- In short, what every student of biology knows – that within nature there is a teleology having to do with the survival of the species which underpins the distinction between the two sexes and produces between them a natural affinity for one another – no surgeon who knows what is good for him may now say.
aetiology
English
(wikipedia aetiology)Alternative forms
* * etiology (American)Noun
- I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams .
