Whether or not Karimsky's judgment of the transcendentalist world view as an irrationalization is justified, its conception of nature as dynamic, mutable, and incomplete prefigures a theme that is to run through much of American philosophy, from James's open universe and Dewey's rejection of the fixed and final in nature, to Justus Buchler's contemporary ordinal conception of the indefinitely ramifiable character of nature's complexes and his rejection of a final Order of nature.

Savanna ecologist believe that a combination of exceptionally infertile soils and highly seasonal rainfall means that the Top End is incapable of supporting the vast populations of mammals so characteristic of some African savannas.

Duggan is careful to acknowledge that her identification of homonormativity does not create a category that parallels and reflects heteronormativity, as there are no gay structures parallel to those supporting and sustaining heterosexuality; …

Listen to him chatterin' about outrages to noncombatants. What are ye yourself but an outrage, you fat Proosian!