Excerpt from The Concept of Control IN the various attempts to render an adequate description of the world of experience as presented in the history of thought, we find recurring such conceptions as purpose, teleology, final cause, design, to denote certain features which have been deemed indispensable to an exhaustive interpretation of reality. Upon reflection it appears that these categories and their like constitute so many variants of the wider concept of control; and as such express specific ways in which control has been apprehended. That is, these different predi cates are diverse methods of explaining control, of making explicit elements thought to be involved in its postulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.