Adjective:

உறுதியான நோக்கத்துடன் செயல்படுகிற,

purposive's Usage Examples:

This apparently purposive movement has been pointed out by M.

Crucially, the generation of this purposiveness is entirely immanent to the organism.

Moreover, if philosophy is to complete its constructive work, it must bring the course of human history within its survey, and exhibit the sequence of events as an evolution in which the purposive action of reason is traceable.

It insists that all thought is personal and purposive and that "pure"' thought is a figment.

These difficulties arise quite naturally from the obligation, which metaphysicians, theologians, moral philosophers, men of science, and psychologists alike recognize, to give an account, consistent with their theories, of the relation of man's power of deliberate and purposive activity to the rest of the universe.

Variation was in fact a purposive response.

The nature of this law, which, upon the whole, appears to be purposive or teleological in its operations, is altogether a mystery which may or may not be illumined by future research.

1843) and his disciples, it was proved that the cerebrum is occupied by many such centres or exchanges, which preside over the formulation of sensations into purposive groups of motions - kinaesthesis of H.

And though ultimately the attribution of responsibility for conduct is further limited to actions which are the result of purposive choice (1rpoaipeoi.

Green, directed by self-conscious and purposive intelligence T to an end conceived as good, - that the polemic of T.

purposive construction, held that it did.

Synonyms:

nonrandom,

Antonyms:

irresolute, meaningless, purposeless,