Who among the following rejected the teleological idea of final causes and insisted that explanations must be sought in what is chronologically antecedent and in this view, opposed Linnaeus and Leibniz but supported and amplified the ideas of Hume and Goethe?

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Who among the following rejected the teleological idea of final causes and insisted that explanations must be sought in what is chronologically antecedent and in this view, opposed Linnaeus and Leibniz but supported and amplified the ideas of Hume and Goethe?