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Telos (noun) means the purpose or ultimate goal of something.

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The purpose or ultimate goal of something.

"In Lewis' view, such societies are cut off from an appreciation of the past, committed to the utopian ideal of unlimited progress, self-satisfied, concerned with technos rather than telos, and skeptical about reason." — Justin Buckley Dyer, Micah J. Watson (2016)

"But confusion persists because of the more contentious issue between the technos and the telos of music and art making in general, the instruments versus the purposes to which they are put, the means and the ends." — Mathew Callahan, The Trouble with Music (2005)

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