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"the former view" is a perfectly correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used to refer to a viewpoint that previously was held, but has since been replaced or superseded. For example: "The former view was that economic growth was the most important indicator of a country's success, but now most economists agree that wellbeing should also be taken into account."
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Wason Center's polling supports the former view.
Can introspection really support the former view over the latter?
Commonwealthers hold the former view; statehooders and independentistas the latter.
Chemero argues for the former view in a volume that is smart, accessible, and engaging.
On the former view, expulsion would require some sort of fault.
Libertarians endorse the former view, while the "republican" tradition, Pettit claims, has historically upheld the latter.
These understandings updated the former view that only mud shale source rock was dominantly developed in the closed continental lake.
I've always taken the former view and so, clearly, does Bondy.
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There has sometimes been a curious overlap in the goals of authorities and activists with respect to daring acts: the former viewing provocation as a means of repression and the latter as a way of raising public consciousness.
They also learn that these skills are gendered, with the former viewed as more masculine, more revered and higher status; and the latter viewed as more feminine and lower status.
One part of this debate is captured by the debate between Seliger and Kendall, the former viewing Locke as a constitutionalist and the latter viewing him as giving almost untrammeled power to majorities.
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