Dysteleology is the philosophical view that existence has no telos – no final cause from purposeful design; it is the opposite of teleology.

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) invented and popularized the term dysteleology (Haeckel, Ernst. Allgemeine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Organismen: Kritische Grundzüge der mechanischen Wissenschaft von den entstehenden Formen der Organismen (Ernst Haeckel: Generelle Morphologie der Organismen) De Gruyter, Reprint 2019 edition (1 Jan. 1866).).

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