The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children …

Richard Dawkins
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The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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