Giorgio Buccellati, Critique of Archaeological Reason
Excerpts and Synopses

Voorrips, Albertus


Excerpts from 1982 Data structuring concepts: Definitions and Interrelationships

Epistemology, Data Structuring (Deductive&Inductive)

p. 96 Concepts The abstract generalizations of sense experiences
Selection Selection is determined by two sets of factors: 1) senses that restrict our observations of particular even when we use all kinds of physical aids and 2) bounded by the total number of properties that are known, the total number of concepts that have been developed in any culture or society.
p. 36 Epistemology Epistemological questions can be answered only partially where one restricts oneself only to the how of knowledge for a more complete answer, it is also necessary to think about the why of knowledge. Moreover the how is influenced by the why.
p. 100 Data structuring For structuring the data is important to compare properties - define a scale which these properties can be compared.
p. 100 Deductive approach Classification is the exhaustive set of mutually exclusive classes each class is defined as a number of properties is independent from real world phenomena and is non-hierarchical and a class can be seen as "a conceptual box" created by its boundaries.
p. 107, 112 Inductive approach Object grouping-any level of inquiry in the real world phenomena which we know as artifacts, settlement plan, feature, and so on are either taken as information themselves or considered to be information makers carrying bits of information. Variable construction-measure things and concepts that have meaning..