Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of equifinality.
The more general implication is that security communities are likely to exhibit equafinality: common endpoints can have very disparate beginnings.
2006, Emanuel Adler, Michael Barnett, “A Framework for the Study of SecurityCommunities”, in Richard Little, Michael Smith, editors, Perspectives on World Politics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 2051 more example
There is always the problem of equafinality, but continuing to examine more complex processes and patterns in living communities will allow this problem to be addressed from multiple lines of evidence (Gifford-Gonzalez, 1991).
2012 December 6, Kaye E. Reed, “The Use of Paleocommunity and Taphonomic Studies in Reconstructing Primate Behavior”, in J. Michael Plavcan, Richard F. Kay, William L. Jungers, Carel P. van Schaik, editors, Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 222
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