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    A thing more truly is what it is destined to become than what it currently seems to be.

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    • 1.If teleology is taken seriously, everything about a thing is to be explained in terms of its telos or goal.
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    • 2.What a thing is destined to become is therefore more explanatorily fundamental than its current state.
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    • 1.Aristotle's four causes grant formal and material causes equal ontological weight to final causes, not subordinate status.
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    • 2.A thing's current actuality (its form as realized) is prior to potentiality in Aristotle's own metaphysics, not posterior to it.
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    • 3.Therefore, even within classical teleology, what a thing currently IS grounds what it can become, reversing the claim's priority.
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    • 1.Hume's regularity theory of causation eliminates intrinsic teleological directionality from nature, making 'destined to become' a projection rather than a real property.
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    • 2.If teleological endpoints are not objective features of things but observer-relative descriptions, then future states cannot constitute a thing's deeper identity.
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    (4) Teleological Identity. Religious world views in which it is the ultimate destiny or purpose of the cosmos to achieve oneness with or to fully express deity provide a fourth model for understanding pantheistic claims of identity. The true identity of the universe is that which is revealed at the end of all things. For example, on the Absolute Idealist scheme, history culminates in the complete realization of God or Absolute spirit in the world and so, as Schelling put it, in the last days “Go
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