"suddenism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1864 August 1, G. Chichester Oxenden, “Letter to Charles Darwin”, in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 12, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, page 294:",
          "text": "In regard to our Dog-hole of an Earth, my own Conviction is that the great Law of Nature is \"Graduality\" & not \"Suddenism\", & that the Cataclysms which have disturbed our Crust are but the Exceptions which prove the Rule itself—",
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          "ref": "1979, Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value, 2nd edition, Pluto Books, published 2017, page 222:",
          "text": "Instead of gradualism, a lot of tradition and a little change, we find we have suddenism, no tradition and all change.",
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        "A tendency for processes to occur suddenly rather than gradually."
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          "text": "Unqualified suddenism is as impossible to maintain as unqualified gradualism.",
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        "The achievement of sudden enlightenment."
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        "(Buddhism) The achievement of sudden enlightenment."
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