Mr. Heitz, who died in 2001, was an important link in the historical chain of Napa cabernet.
If one were to trace the historical chain of generations backward, however, at some point one would arrive at what seems to be a different species.
The strength of Mr. Goldhagen's argument is that it makes strikingly clear the ways in which the Inquisition, the pogroms and the Holocaust are links in the same dread historical chain.
"In an instant," said Mr. Ranstorp, "you are propelled from being no one to someone who is glorified, and lionized with poems, and you live on in this historical chain of heroic martyrs, being remembered and saluted far longer than if you had not undertaken this kind of operation".
As another link in a historical chain that dates to 1926 and has been broken only by World War II, the game was steeped in significance for the participants and the crowd of 85,417, even if it did not carry the weight this storied rivalry has in past years.
They are to be default-accepted for those who participate in these historical inquiries, serving to confirm a historical chain's accuracy, rather than conversely (Coady 1992; Traiger 1993; Elgin 2010).
On the one hand, given his references to an original baptism or name-giving ceremony, we can regard Buridan as offering an early hint of the historical chain theory of proper names.
In this case, the connection is constituted by a historical chain of speakers going back to the initial users of the name 'Aristotle', or its Greek equivalent, in baptism-like circumstances.
Rather than flagging the simultaneous blending of conflicting cultural claims to form a subject position that is constituted by its borderland status, Butler deploys the notion of "psychic excess" and points to the re-significations of performance (as within a historical chain) in ways that subvert a stable subject position altogether.
For example, Michael Devitt (1981) takes senses to be causal-historical chains linking utterances of names to their referents (see the Causal-Historical Theory below).
Notably, the kind of causation that Psillos's hybrid account refers to is different from the causal-historical chains that Kripke thought responsible for the transmission of reference among speakers.
