0078 Hodder strives to capture a complex and nuanced appreciation of a suite of actualities that associate with the noumenon of archaeology, whose observable and measurable facets (or phenomena) are recorded during excavations.

He has only one word, “entanglement”.

0079 The following actualities come from a Peirce-based rearticulation of chapter one (C1) and touch on chapters two through four (C2-C4), on the basis of a Dominican’s recent survey of post-modern philosophers on the topic of Aristotle’s hylomorphism.

0080 These three actualities may be cast as “sensical_2a” (based on the senses), “sensible_2b” (based on one’s assessment of the situation) and “social_2c” (typically assumed to be operational, but one never knows when sensible construction will fail).

In the above figures, the three actualities are configured as “little_2a“, “middle_2b” and “big_2c” noumenon.

0081 The above figure presents a virtual-nested form in the realm of secondness.  The normal contexts₃ and potentials₁ do not appear, even though I may correctly claim that, without them, the actualities₂ cannot be correctly assessed.  Fortunately, I know what they are for the content and situation levels, because of Dr. Tabaczek’s fine review.  Unfortunately, the perspective-level normal context_3c and potential_1c remain unlabeled.

0082 What about those clay balls?

In section 2 of chapter 2 (S2C2), Hodder poses some questions.

Do humans depend on clay balls?

Do the clay balls depend on humans?

What does “dependence” mean?

0083 Four items are required: fire, clay ball, basket with lid and a hunk of meat.

Oh, one also needs sticks that will work as “tongs”.

0083 If this is a family-based operation, whoever is in charge of the clay ball must have the skill to “tong” the hot ball.

I don’t think that these sticks have ever been found in the ruins of Catal Hoyuk.  The baskets that hot clay balls go into have also not been found.

0084 Here is a picture of the first step for one of those items.

I suspect that archaeologists figure this out by various residues on excavated clay balls.  What a hot little noumenon the clay ball is.

0085 The author is completely on target with respect to the tong-wielding person and the clay ball.  They depend on one another.  That is the story of the first edition.  The second edition takes the situation under consideration.  The situation entangles things other than the hot clay ball.  Other things are necessary for the flow.

0086 The little noumenon entangles matter that enters the middle noumenon.

The entanglement resolves in the substance of flow.

0087 The middle noumenon may be labeled “a two-level interscope” or “a sensible construction”.

The sensible construction includes moments when a less-than-agile cook drops the hot clay ball, sending it rolling across the well plastered floor.

Such an incident does not make the two-level interscope any less sensible.

But, it is funny to imagine.

0088 Peirce’s category of secondness covers the entire drama.  But, the inquirer should not forget the attendant elements in thirdness and firstness, that are not included in the above diagram.