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Above I questioned whether it was quite so clear that 'species have essences that change over kind' was really quite so problematic in the history of biology as Shtulman suggests; and that leaves another question, namely, whether it is doing quite as much work in the transformationist errors as Shtulman suggests.
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Pre-variationists tended to provide transformationist answers to the questions, but diverged from pure transformationists by tending somewhat variationist.
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But the modern transformationist aims at stating explicitly (i.e., for - mally, mathematically) how the deep structures of a language can be transformed into surface structures.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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As with many of his liberal counterparts, you have the sense that the parameters of his political thinking consist of his colleagues and opponents in the blogosphere-that he rarely if ever talks to anyone who isn't fluent in the language made up of phrases like "domestic policy transformationist" and "the smart center-left."
The New Yorker 2009
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Only this evangelical Christology can found a truly transformationist approach to culture. "
Inhabitatio Dei 2008
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