purposive

Treating human communication as node-to-node contagion might predict past outcomes, but it misses the purposive, context-driven nature of choice.

This just went from trademark infringement to calculated, evil, purposive attempt to co-opt someone else's trademark.

The right against unreasonable search and seizure, like all Charter rights, must receive a broad and purposive interpretation, reflective of its constitutional source.

They're doing natural science on a thing full of complex purposive undesigned machinery.

All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence.

As such, they are always purposive, inherent to an active observer.

The amount of detail we include depends on what we're trying to do; models are purposive tools rather than descriptions of reality.

Then a similar system to patents could be used whereby the publication, the [licensed and purposive] presentation of matter to the public domain, would be the key date.

> All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence.

It's harder to think of more concrete examples, and it's a bit easy to confuse an acknowledgment of pattern with purpose, but taoism seems rather critical of purposive action on the whole.

The person responsible for introducing Indian club exercises to Europe and America was Donald Walker, author of 'British Manly Exercises' was perhaps the most influential book on purposive exercise published in English during the nineteenth century.

Extrinsic telos, as in human purposive use, isn't what I was talking about - I meant intrinsic telos, the settled state that a system will reach if left to its own devices.

Psychologist Robert Sternberg defined intelligence as "mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection, and shaping of real-world environments relevant to one's life."

“Core ideal meaning” sounds too purposive, like someone somewhere innovated the word you’re studying to capture just that meaning.

"Too strong a belief in the rationality of people in general, or of the world, will lead us to seek purposive explanations where none exists."

You could also argue that because of gravity and potential energy, up is usually the result of purposive action and effort, while down is often the result of accident or neglect ("you often hurt yourself falling").