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the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another

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an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

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transubstantiation

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conversion

a qualitative change

(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)

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Owen realized "a Peelite middle way" between intransigent, radical French transmutationist theory and the idealism of Naturphilosophie and traditional thinking.

Leveling evolution

While the "higher" instinct fits with idealist theories of human development, his representation of the "lower" instinct implicitly acknowledges the human kinship with animals that was central to transmutationist theories.

of the lower animals," collectively "term[ed] instinct." (13) Once we accept "that mental phenomena flow directly from the brain," and that "the lower animals manifested mental phenomena long before man existed," then the transmutationist "nature of the distinction between what are called instincts and reason" becomes immediately apparent.

Yet, as he realized in composing the "Theory of Life," and as he intended the Reason/ Understanding distinction to prevent, a transmutationist interpretation of progressionist ascendance was all too easy to see.

Following Thoreau's instincts

For all these reasons, then, it has been easy to treat Cuvier s science as conceptually conservative and the science of the transmutationists as conceptually progressive.

The naturalist in Balzac: the relative influence of Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

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