Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along with Greek and hieroglyphs, enabling European scholars to decipher the royal language in the early 19th century and thus read the top-down version of a great civilization's long history.
Thomson's vision of classic cinema is, in effect, religious: people, he thinks, used to believe what they were being told by Hollywood, just as they used to believe what they were fed by the clergy and by politicians, and the loss of belief in an official, top-down version of reality has let out the dogs of skepticism, free-thinking, and individualism.
The top-down version of the apoha doctrine was subjected to various criticisms from the Hindu realists, especially by Kumārila who criticised the doctrine on grounds of circularity.
According to the top-down version, the negation operator in the exclusion, the apoha somehow manages pick out real particulars in the world while avoiding any commitment to universals.
Instead of such a bottom-up version of the relation of experience and theoretical knowledge, according to which experience determines the meanings of our theoretical terms, Feyerabend argued for a top-down version, according to which our theories determine the meaning we attach to our experiences.
Harvard's administration was strictly "top down".
It opens with a bilingual rewrite of the song by David Byrne, performed with Celia Cruz; later Lulu, Charles and a car full of friendly hitchhikers sing it live with the top down; we hear the most famous version, by the British group the Troggs; and Sister Carol does a reggae version over the closing credits.
Germany and France in the year ad 1000 illustrate the two tendencies of millennialism: the former manifested the "top-down" imperial version, while the latter displayed a remarkable array of "bottom-up" populist expressions.
For a toned down version take the sky-car to the top of the stadium or walk across the arch.
