Meaning of teleophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.

uncountable

Examples

“In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.””

“[…]the teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences.”

CEFR level