: any of various theories of nature or of human and animal behavior that regard purpose or conscious intent as a basal fact.

What is purposivism law?

As I am using the term "purposivism" it refers to the approach to statutory interpretation that maintains that the legal effect of a statute should be determined by the objective purpose of the statute.

What is purposivism in psychology?

Purposivism means the primacy of striving or seeking, rather than the primacy of foresight. Sometimes the broader word, horme (hor-may, a Greek word meaning urge), is substituted for purpose, and purposivism rechristened the hormic psychology.