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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 tel·e·ol·o·gy /ˌtɛliˈɑləʤi, ˌti-/
 目的論,有目的,目的論者
From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典
 te·le·ol·o·gy /ˌtɛlɪˈɑləʤɪ, ˌtɪl-/ 名詞
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Te·le·ol·o·gy n.  The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. Biol., the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
 
From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 teleology
      n : (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends
          or purposes