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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnTelos}{From TELOS: ``complete'' or ``perfect''.
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Aristotle said that the TELOS of an acorn is the oak tree.
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So TELOS means 'perfect' in the sense of what it was meant to become.
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Contrast with the Platonic sense — "perfect" in popular English almost always means Platonic ideal,
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flawless, unattainable in some abstract, otherworldly way.
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TELOS is almost the opposite: fully actualized, having arrived at what it was always becoming.
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That inversion is the whole point and it's load-bearing across the Sermon on the Mount ("be ye therefore TELOS")
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and \Ioannes's "it is finished" — TETELESTAI, same root, meaning ``brought to its TELOS.''
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}
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\fi
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