The phrase "accidental change" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an unintentional or unexpected change that occurs. Example: The accidental change in the company's policy caused confusion among employees.
How does this notion of accidental change relate to the current phase of India's trajectory?
(As I have remarked elsewhere, insofar as a mutation has any effect, the effect is more likely to be harmful than helpful, for the obvious reason that an accidental change is more likely to be a disruption than an improvement).
This sort of change is known, appropriately enough, as accidental change.
In an accidental change, a substance persists through the change, having first one accident and then another.
We can't analyze this change as an accidental change, since there doesn't seem to be any substance that persists through the change.
In substantial generation or destruction, a substantial form is gained or lost; in mere accidental change, the form gained or lost is itself accidental.
Armed with these distinctions, Aristotle would then say that, in the case of accidental changes, (1) and (2) are both false a changing thing can really change one of its "accidental properties" and yet literally remain one and the same thing before and after the change.
All mutations are accidental changes to DNA.
-- Doug Glanville, "The Boys of Spring" THE WILD SIDE All mutations are accidental changes to DNA.
Beneficial mutations are those accidental changes that in some way improve an organism's chances of surviving and reproducing.
Different varieties appeared largely as a result of accidental changes or modifications in one or more steps of the cheese-making process.
