Telic
Encyclopedia
Telic, a purposeful or defined action, may refer to:
- Grammatically, indicating telicityTelicityIn linguistics, telicity is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense...
- A central argument of TeleologyTeleologyA teleology is any philosophical account which holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning that design and purpose analogous to that found in human actions are inherent also in the rest of nature. The word comes from the Greek τέλος, telos; root: τελε-, "end, purpose...
says that the world has clearly been constructed in a purposeful telic rather than a chaotic manner, and must therefore have been made by a rational being, i.e. God - Operation TelicOperation TelicOperation TELIC was the codename under which all British military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the Invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on 22 May 2011...
, the codename for the British military participation in the 2003 Iraq War