uniformitarian
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统一主义者,均匀主义者,均匀主义,统一性
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
- : Geology. of or relating to the thesis that processes that operated in the remote geological past are not different from those observed now.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who accepts or supports a uniformitarian theory.
Examples
The uniformitarian teaching which Lyell deduced from geological observation had gained acceptance.
This is the uniformitarian view, and is undoubtedly far truer than the catastrophic.
A few, like MacCulloch, undervalued palæontological research, and thus were doubly prejudiced against the uniformitarian views.
And here Lamarck, in spite of his uniformitarian principles, is strongly cataclysmic.
In all this, of course, I am considering the question from the common uniformitarian standpoint.
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