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1881 Mind 6 116 As a movement is the mere flow of stored-up nervous energy, and has no definite quasi-purposive character, it is best regarded as a mechanical result of present conditions merely.

1907 H. Rashdall Theory of Good & Evil II. iii. iv. 373 Biology now finds that it cannot get on without the idea of ‘quasi-purposive’ behaviour in accounting for the growth of the individual organisms.

1996 Musical Times Jan. 10/2 This is the attribute of discursivity, of music's ability to articulate a quasi-purposive, self-referential channel of meaning.