Cumulation and Teleology

Kant's definition of Purposiveness, as a relation between a concept and the effort to actualize it, anticipates the distinction that Dewey draws between an 'End' and an 'End-in-view'. For, both locate the efficacy of a Teleological Cause in the intention that precedes an action, as opposed to in the terminal point of a process, as Aristotle has it. Likewise, a cumulative process is not 'teleological' on the mere basis that its latest phase preserves the phases that precede it; it would be teleological only if a representation of that final phase sets the process in motion. Conversely. the final phase of a teleological process always preserves its antecedents. In other words, Teleological Causality is a special case of Cumulation.