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单词 purposiveness
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ˈpurposiveness
ˈpurposiveness n. the quality or fact of being purposive.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > fact of having a purpose
purposiveness1876
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. i. 19 [One] must necessarily come to the conclusion that this ‘purposiveness’ no more exists than the much-talked-of ‘beneficence’ of the Creator.
1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. iv. 181 The characteristic feature of the sentence, as opposed to mere unintelligible words, is its purposiveness.
2001 C. Crockett Theol. of Sublime 110 Kantian beauty, which consists in a free play of imagination and understanding in a purposiveness without purpose or a finality without end.
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