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- Title
"WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE" — HOW TO AVOID TELEOLOGY.
- Authors
Oakes, Mervin E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on how to avoid teleology in teaching science. Objective wording is available to replace most any animistic, anthropomorphic, or teleological statement, without "awkward circumlocution." Teleological expressions include "in other that," "so that," and several others. Adaptation that many writers in the field of biology let themselves slip into teleological phrases. Animistic and anthropomorphic expressions are also found in the physical sciences. When flowery figures of speech or even those without flowers are considered to enhance literary style, figurative language need not to become a way of thinking.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; TELEOLOGY; METAPHYSICAL cosmology; SCIENCE education; BIOLOGY; FIGURES of speech; LITERARY style
- Publication
Science Education, 1960, Vol 44, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730440124