The word transformation is used broadly.
A company changes strategy.
A body changes shape.
A neighborhood is rebuilt.
A technology alters an industry.
All may be called transformations.
That usage is legitimate ordinary language.
The source explores a narrower, ontological use associated with Werner Erhard's work: transformation as a shift in the context or experience of who one is, not merely a large alteration in circumstances.
The narrower use should not be presented as the only correct definition.
It is useful because it distinguishes two kinds of change.
Circumstances can change dramatically while the same assumptions continue organizing experience.
Conversely, an important shift in interpretation or identity can occur before circumstances visibly change.
Neither form makes the other unreal.
The distinction simply prevents size from doing all the conceptual work.
A dramatic change is a dramatic change.
Transformation, in this narrower inquiry, asks whether the frame itself changed.

A distinction between large change and transformation understood as a change in the frame, context, or experience from which life is interpreted.

That usage is legitimate ordinary language.

The source explores a narrower, ontological use associated with Werner Erhard's work: transformation as a shift in the context or experience of who one is, not merely a large alteration in circumstances.

The narrower use should not be presented as the only correct definition.

It is useful because it distinguishes two kinds of change.

Circumstances can change dramatically while the same assumptions continue organizing experience.

Conversely, an important shift in interpretation or identity can occur before circumstances visibly change.

The distinction simply prevents size from doing all the conceptual work.

Transformation, in this narrower inquiry, asks whether the frame itself changed.

Not Every Dramatic Change Is Transformation