单词	purposive
释义	purposive /ˈpəːpəsɪv / adjective Having or done with a purpose: teaching is a purposive activity... They look for a collective life involving emotional, intellectual and physical inputs in some purposive activity. Each is defined by one of three aspects of purposive human activity, and this is its ‘horizonal schema’ or ‘pattern’. In this microscopic view, experience is revealed as having a foundation of ceaseless activity, of short-lived purposive impulses. Derivatives purposively adverb ... The primary data were purposively collected, from 30 sample farmers in two sample villages in North Arcot district for various crops and farm size under irrigated and rainfed conditions. As a result, the process of the origination of species constantly hides and even annihilates those origins, not purposively but through random carnage and mere oblivion. This approach allows the researcher to sample purposively (if not randomly) and so ensure a wide range of characteristics of interviewees. purposiveness noun ... This point of view mediates the animal's experience and conveys its purposiveness and emotional states, without suggesting that the animal itself relies on language or a symbolic understanding of its environment. This principle of common sense is the form that the general a priori principle of the purposiveness of nature for judgment takes when we are trying to understand the subjective conditions of aesthetic judgments of beauty. In an effort to compare the evolution of purposiveness with the additional attributes of intentionality, a simple test of purposiveness was devised based primarily on the criterion of rationality.
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