Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle¶
Gould, S. J. (1987). Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Harvard University Press.
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- Deep Time
- T5: Singular deep-time process versus nested timescale ecology.
This sourceFrames the conceptual history of deep time as a dialectic between directional contingent process (time's arrow) and recurring uniform structure (time's cycle).
- T5: Singular deep-time process versus nested timescale ecology.
- Time
- The vocabulary and reasoning of time help practitioners in one domain recognize and apply insights from another, as Gould (1987) traces through the dual metaphors of time's arrow (irreversible directionality) and time's cycle (recurrence) that underlie scientific reasoning across geology, biology, and history.
This sourceFrames the conceptual history of deep time as a dialectic between directional, contingent process ("time's arrow") and recurring uniform structure ("time's cycle"); analyzes how nested timescales and reasoning across timescale strata recur from Burnet through Hutton and Lyell.
- The vocabulary and reasoning of time help practitioners in one domain recognize and apply insights from another, as Gould (1987) traces through the dual metaphors of time's arrow (irreversible directionality) and time's cycle (recurrence) that underlie scientific reasoning across geology, biology, and history.
- Uniformitarianism
- Uniformitarianism is the methodological assumption that permits inference across that frame, a separation Gould (1987) develops by distinguishing "time's arrow" (directional history) from "time's cycle" (recurring uniform processes).
This sourceDistinguishes "time's arrow" (directional, irreversible historical change) from "time's cycle" (recurring, uniform processes); analyzes how Hutton and Lyell constructed deep time as a temporal frame across which uniformitarian inference could operate.
- Uniformitarianism is the methodological assumption that permits inference across that frame, a separation Gould (1987) develops by distinguishing "time's arrow" (directional history) from "time's cycle" (recurring uniform processes).
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