Where people did not know how to seek the relation of cause and effect they looked for a teleological interpretation .
在人们无法找出原因和结果的关系的时候，他们便会寻求目的论的解释。
Functionalist explanation and teleological explanation of social action .
社会行动的功能论式的解释与目的论式的解释。
The continent 's leaders , however , still seem to be in deep denial about the urgency and gravity of the situation , blinded , perhaps , by teleological expectations of an ever-closer union .
