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Why would Newton redescribe what had actually happened in this way?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It is needless to redescribe his acquired fear of whiteness as it manifested itself in the freshly painted apparatus.

From The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior by Yerkes, Robert M.

The purpose of this paper is to redescribe the species and to make known its pattern of geographic variation.

From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.

The organism remains what it is, a living creature with a behaviour which we are unable to redescribe in terms of mechanism.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

But while he was technically an abstract Monist, he was practically a "mechanist," believing that it was feasible to redescribe all evolution in terms of mechanical categories.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)