It fosters an objectified sense of time, a linear conception of space.
But by assuming a linear conception of history, it too often neglected the discontinuities and interferences of concrete history.
The discovery of radioactive emissions, constant and unilinear, in 1896, seemed at once to support the linear conception of time and to provide a means of measuring it independently of sidereal bodies.
The latter is rich and strange idea of time that is completely at odds with the standard, linear conception, which goes back to Aristotle, as a sequence of now-points extending from the future through the present and into the past.
This is further exacerbated by the fact that many dissemination practices remain based on "a mechanistic, linear conception of dissemination as a process of getting the word out" [ 2].
Nor can we retain the old, linear, cumulative conception of scientific progress characteristic of Enlightenment thinking, for attempts to to show that the new paradigm contains the old, either logically or in some limit or under some approximation, are guilty of a fallacy of equivocation.
The potential implication for orientation of tree diagrams is two-fold: misreading of time direction and the potential for reinforcing linear and progressive conceptions of evolution.
Our analyses provide a powerful rationale for the current focus on improving childhood nutrition and promoting linear growth from conception to age 2 y because it confers lifelong benefits to individuals as well as their families.
John Campbell (1997), for example, posits conceptual connections between autobiographical memory, a grasp of time as linear, and a strong conception of the spatio-temporal continuity of the self.
The notion of glocalization represents a challenge to simplistic conceptions of globalization processes as linear expansions of territorial scales.
