Where people did not know how to seek the relation of cause and effect they looked for a teleological interpretation .

在人们无法找出原因和结果的关系的时候，他们便会寻求目的论的解释。

Functionalist explanation and teleological explanation of social action .

社会行动的功能论式的解释与目的论式的解释。

The continent 's leaders , however , still seem to be in deep denial about the urgency and gravity of the situation , blinded , perhaps , by teleological expectations of an ever-closer union .

但是，欧洲大陆的领导人，似乎仍然从心底里否认有关事态的紧迫性和严重性，被目的论的越来越紧密的联合的期望所蒙蔽。

According to this principle , we can see the nature as a developing teleological system and then make the link possible from nature to freedom .

正是因为这一原则，我们才能够将自然界看成一个由低到高不断进展的目的系统，因而使得从自然到自由的沟通成为可能。

Both claim to substitute a purely causal treatment of human action for the - as they declare unscientific - teleological treatment .

他们都宣称用纯粹的因果关系分析来代替目的论，因为用目的论研究人类行为是不科学的。