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[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Soul_purpose.jpg|right|frame|<center>[[Love]] is our [[soul]] <u>purpose</u>.</center>]]

[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Soul_purpose.jpg|right|frame|<center>[[Love]] is our [[soul]] ''purpose''.</center>]]

'''Purpose''' is the [[cognitive]] awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal in a given [[system]], whether [[human]] or [[machine]]. Its most general sense is the anticipated result which guides [[decision]] making in choosing appropriate [[action]]s within a range of strategies in the [[process]] (a conceptual scheme) based on varying degrees of [[ambiguity]] about the [[knowledge]] that creates the contextualisation for the action. Purpose serves to change the [[state]] of conditions in a given environment, usually to one with a perceived better set of conditions or parameters from the previous state. This change is the [[motivation]] that serves the locus of control and goal orientation. In [[psychology]] and psychiatry, the [[experience]] of lacking a purpose in one's life is known as [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acedia accidy].

'''Purpose''' is the [[cognitive]] awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal in a given [[system]], whether [[human]] or [[machine]]. Its most general sense is the anticipated result which guides [[decision]] making in choosing appropriate [[action]]s within a range of strategies in the [[process]] (a conceptual scheme) based on varying degrees of [[ambiguity]] about the [[knowledge]] that creates the contextualisation for the action. Purpose serves to change the [[state]] of conditions in a given environment, usually to one with a perceived better set of conditions or parameters from the previous state. This change is the [[motivation]] that serves the locus of control and goal orientation. In [[psychology]] and psychiatry, the [[experience]] of lacking a purpose in one's life is known as [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acedia accidy].

First attested in c.1290, from earl Old French porpos "aim, [[intention]]", purpose is related to from porposer "to put forth," from Vulgar Latin corruption of por- "forth" (Latin pro- "forth") and Old French poser "to put, place".[1] Purpose is related to the term pose used from 1374 as to "put in a certain position," or "suggest, propose, suppose, assume," a term use in Late Latin debating (c.300–c.700) from pausare "to halt, rest, pause".[2]

First attested in c.1290, from earl Old French porpos "aim, [[intention]]", purpose is related to from porposer "to put forth," from Vulgar Latin corruption of por- "forth" (Latin pro- "forth") and Old French poser "to put, place".[1] Purpose is related to the term pose used from 1374 as to "put in a certain position," or "suggest, propose, suppose, assume," a term use in Late Latin debating (c.300–c.700) from pausare "to halt, rest, pause".[2]

==In human life==

==In human life==

==See also==

==See also==

* Value  

* [[Value]]

* Intention

* [[Intention]]

==External links==

==External links==

==References==

==References==

# purpose, Online Etymological Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=purpose  

# purpose, Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=purpose  

# pose, Online Etymological Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pose  

# pose, Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pose  

#Richard Dawkins (video), Richard Dawkins: The universe is queerer than we can suppose, TED conferences, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html  

#Richard Dawkins (video), Richard Dawkins: The universe is queerer than we can suppose, TED conferences, https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html  

#Rick Warren (video), Rick Warren: Living a life of purpose, TED conferences, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rick_warren_on_a_life_of_purpose.html  

#Rick Warren (video), Rick Warren: Living a life of purpose, TED conferences, https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rick_warren_on_a_life_of_purpose.html  

#Dan Dennet (video), Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren, TED conferences, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren.html  

#Dan Dennet (video), Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren, TED conferences, https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren.html  

#Daniel C. Maguire (Fall 2004), Sex and the Sacred, Cross Currents (Association for Religion & Intellectual Life), http://www.crosscurrents.org/Maguire0304.htm, retrieved on 2009-04-11  

#Daniel C. Maguire (Fall 2004), Sex and the Sacred, Cross Currents (Association for Religion & Intellectual Life), https://www.crosscurrents.org/Maguire0304.htm, retrieved on 2009-04-11  

#Dan Cohn-Sherbok (2003). Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice. Routledge. pp. 512. ISBN 0415236614.  

#Dan Cohn-Sherbok (2003). Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice. Routledge. pp. 512. ISBN 0415236614.  

#Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826408028.  

#Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826408028.