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Definition of Preformations
1. preformation [n] - See also: preformation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preformations
Literary usage of Preformations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper (1898)
"The pro- plastic forms also, or preformations which were created for this body
in the vegetable and animal kingdom, must indeed be investigated with a view ..."
2. Decay of Rationalismby Arthur Holmes by Arthur Holmes (1910)
"... preformations, and dispositions, except that it has required the revolutionary
daring of the Konigsberg philosopher to endow sensibility with similar ..."
3. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"In correspondence with this the opposite theory of individual preformations would
be better entitled the theory of involution. The advocates of the theory ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"He repudiates the charge that his germ elements are modernized reproductions of
Bonnet's preformations, and also argues for the simplicity of his theory of ..."
5. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"Preformations Threatened destruction would not involved. involve pain unless that
threatened de- ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Thus he does not account for the fact that organic beings—which have alwan existed
as preformations (in the case of animals as animaux ..."
7. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"Preformations Threatened destruction would not involved. involve pain unless that
threatened de- ..."
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