Meaning & use
equifinality
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The principle that different starting points or methods can lead to the same end result.
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Equifinality in family therapy means that similar dysfunction can arise from very different family histories.
The researchers pointed to equifinality to explain why unrelated policies produced the same economic outcome.
A note on using this word
A term from systems theory, used across fields like biology, psychology, and organizational studies to describe how one outcome can have multiple possible causes or paths.
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