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The lie we tell that time only moves forward in one neat line.
means The arrangement of events in the order they happened, usually along a single timeline.
from Built from Greek khronos, 'time,' plus -logia, 'the study of' — the same khronos that gives us chronic and chronicle. The suffix traces back to logos, 'word' or 'reason,' so chronology is literally 'the reasoned account of time,' a word as orderly as the thing it claims to describe.
- etymology
- From Greek chronos, time, plus logos, study
- bias
- Written by winners, so order often flatters them
- memory trick
- Your brain reorders events to make better stories
- calendars
- Different cultures still disagree on what year it is