Repertoire change happens through continuous modulation, not sharp breaks.

Evidence

Warning: like most useful dichotomies, the reduction of many repertoires to just two simplifies radically for the sake of clarity. No actual group employed all the means of action within either of the repertoires; no pair of actors shifted abruptly from one repertoire to the other; no sharp break in repertoires occurred in 1800 or at any other date. We are examining a history of continuous innovation and modulation. Yet surges of change in repertoires did occur, alterations in the contentious repertoires of one pair of actors induced alterations in adjacent pairs, broad conflicts produced more extensive repertoire changes than narrow ones, and some innovations caught on much more rapidly and durably than others. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 352

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Stable regimes sustain strong flexible repertoires shaped jointly by culture and structure — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 273; Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks; Evolution advances by breaks, not gradual transitions between forms — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 523 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks #corroborates (0.95)
• Evolution advances by breaks, not gradual transitions between forms #contradicts (0.93) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 523
• Convincing character change is subtle, not abrupt or total #exemplifies (0.75) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 306