{"id":5051,"date":"2016-09-06T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:08:49","slug":"phrase-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/06\/phrase-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrase of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Promiscuous teleology<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Psychologist Debora Kelemen of Boston University has argued that young children exhibit &#8220;promiscuous teleology&#8221; (a phrase only an academic could love), meaning they find goals and purposes in almost everything. [&#8220;Fate: Inventing Reasons for the Things Thatt Happen,&#8221; Stuart Vyse, September \/ October <strong><em>Skeptical Inquirer<\/em><\/strong>, p. 25]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, I disagree: that&#8217;s a cool phrase. From the same article, an example of a teleological explanation is, if Briana&#8217;s cat ran away, it&#8217;s to teach her that taking care of animals is a big responsibility,&#8221; in contrast to the natural explanation &#8220;Because she left the door open.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promiscuous teleology: Psychologist Debora Kelemen of Boston University has argued that young children exhibit &#8220;promiscuous teleology&#8221; (a phrase only an academic could love), meaning they find goals and purposes in almost everything. [&#8220;Fate: Inventing Reasons for the Things Thatt Happen,&#8221; Stuart Vyse, September \/ October Skeptical Inquirer, p. 25] Oh, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/06\/phrase-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}