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EQUIFINALITY
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EQUIFINALITY
a condition in which different initial conditions
led to similar effects. (see MULTIFINALITY.) Equifinality in
biological systems led the German biologist Driesch to embrace
vitalism--the doctrine that vital phenomena are inexplicable in
terms of natural science. (Von Bertalanffy, p. 40)