a. and sb. [f. TELEOLOGY + -IC.] A. adj. = next.
1842. De Quincey, in Blackw. Mag., LII. 730/2. The peculiar beauty of a kitchen-garden, or of a machine, which must be derived from their tendency to certain ends or uses, is called teleologic beauty.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. i. § 2 (1876), 264. Value in use, or as Mr. De Quincey calls it, teleologic value, is the extreme limit of value in exchange.
1894. A. T. Ormond, Basel Concepts in Philosophy, xiv. 249. Here in the idea of spiritual struggle mediated through sacrifice, and reconciliation and peace achieved on a higher plane, we seem to find the real teleologic ideal of art.
B. sb. The science of final causes; that branch of knowledge which deals with ends or purposes.
1865. S. H. Hodgson, Time & Space, II. ix. § 68. 566. Technic and Teleologic are the two branches of practical knowledge, founded respectively on conation and feeling.
