geology

In crime, fossile hunting, geology and archeology the placement of items is important for proving time sequence. Items are presumed to continue and if one thing is found under another, generally speaking, that is the item that must have arived at that place first.

Also, because items are presumed to continue, any item has to find its way into the position it is found in, it cannot just appear there brand new with no history. In this sort of way we get a continued environemnt of continuing items.

Any item that continues, insofar as it does continue, does not need us to draw a conclusion beyond itself as it continues. This is how it continues. And in as far as we don't need to draw a conclusion beyond any continuing object as it continues, the continuation of that object is sufficient to account for itself.