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"text": "The main strength of the text, however, lies not so much with the reductio ad absurdum of the world soul hypotheses, but in its critical assessment of Leibniz's monadology and Robinet's biological transformationalism, on the one hand, and in Ploucquet's own theory of finite substances as 'real images', imagines reales, of the infinite divine force, on the other hand; in short, in his own alternative of natural philosophy.",
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"ref": "2011, Michael Funk Deckard, PŽter Losonczi, Philosophy Begins in Wonder, →ISBN, page 129:",
"text": "In historical terms, Diderot's full-fledged, materialistic hylozoism apparently relies on Locke's hypothesis concerning thinking matter, on Toland's theory of essentially active matter, on Maupertuis's theory of the spontaneous creative degeneration of the embryo, and probably on Robinet's biological transformationalism as well.",
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"ref": "2013, G. Kampis, Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 16:",
"text": "Transformationalism was a dominant theory of change before Darwin set the stage.",
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