linear succession

Look no further for proof that art history is less a linear succession of movements than a crazy quilt.

However, both authors are far from any technological determinism, which would read history as the linear succession of technological progress.

However, the delivering of the consolamentum, on which historical Catharism was based, required a linear succession by a bon homme in good standing.

The story of the evolution of modern humans can be a bit confusing, species-wise, with many early hominins co-existing without an obvious linear succession.

In a convenient piece of straw-man targeting, he appears to imagine that all grand narratives are ruthlessly exclusivist and flatten everything to a mechanical linear succession.

The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh's reign, each mounting the throne in the year 1, and also according to the levy of taxes.

Thus it was only with Vasily II that the Muscovite princes were finally able to break the long-held tradition of collateral succession and establish a system of linear succession to the Muscovite throne.

The Via del Corso may not be the Rift Valley, and the traffic cops may not be soldiers telling you to go away from the coup, but the motorcycle provides a linear succession between all those places and events.

No small part, however, was played by Dmitri Donskoi's will, which ran contrary to Rurikid dynastic custom whereby the throne would pass from an elder brother to a younger one (lateral inheritance), rather than from father to son (linear succession).

Translatio imperii, Latin for "transfer of rule", originating in the Middle Ages is a concept for describing history as a linear succession of transfers of an imperium that invests supreme power in a singular ruler, an "emperor".

Other scholars and historians disagree, citing the historical records of St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Irenaeus who recorded the linear succession of Bishops of Rome (the popes) up until their own times.

For example, if text is conveyed to a blind person using Braille writing, the tactile sensory modality is used instead of vision, but the representation still consists of a linear succession of textual elements which represent individual characters in the alphabet.

Eliade argues that yearning to remain in the mythical age causes a "terror of history": traditional man desires to escape the linear succession of events (which, Eliade indicated, he viewed as empty of any inherent value or sacrality).

Kuhn's work established that the history of science was not necessarily a linear succession of discoveries, which bring us closer to the truth, but rather a succession of paradigms, which are broader, socio-intellectual constructs that determine which types of truth claims are permissible.

De Landa distinguishes various "ages" of war machines (although they probably don't succeed each other in a simple way; Foucault and Deleuze likewise cast in doubt such historical linear succession); he also defines various "levels" of war machines (tactics, strategy and logistics, which necessarily involve politics).