单词 | teleophobia |
释义 | > as lemmasteleophobia teleophobia n. Brit. /ˌtiːlɪə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/ , /ˌtɛlɪə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/ , U.S. /ˌtɛliəˈfoʊbiə/ , /ˌtiliəˈfoʊbiə/ [after German Teleophobie (K. E. von Baer 1866, in Bull. de l'Acad. Impériale des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg 9 126)] aversion to teleological explanations for natural phenomena.ΚΠ 1880 M. S. Phelps tr. R. Eucken Fund. Concepts Mod. Philos. Thought 210 Perhaps this historical discussion may serve to moderate this ‘teleophobia’ [Ger. Teleophobie] ridiculed by K. E. von Baer. 1960 Philosophy 35 160 The teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences. 2008 D. Walsh in M. Ruse Oxf. Handbk. Philos. Biol. v. 133 These objections are merely holdovers from the teleophobia prevalent in early modern thinking about the natural world. < as lemmas |
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