Over-emphasizing extrinsic finality is often criticized as leading to the anthropic attribution of every event to a divine purpose, or superstition.
God must have intended for me to go to the store so I would find that money."
or "We won the game today because of my lucky socks."
Such abuses were criticized by Francis Bacon,[1] Descartes, [2] and Spinoza.
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