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Large, overarching principles are theories, like natural selection in biology or perhaps the near-exceptionlessness of sound changes in historical linguistics.
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“regularity” of “exceptions” to Grimm's Law (in the very same year, 1876) and it became one of the most potent arguments in favor of exceptionlessness.
LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968
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