retrodiction : diagnosis :: prediction : prognosis

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Dennis Piechota

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Jan 7, 2016, 9:06:14 AM1/7/16
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In order to diagnose the problem presented by the object-in-treatment we conservators predict its past (retrodiction). With supporting documentation we imagine the history of the received object and design a treatment that allows us to imagine that object in a stable future.

Our benchwork then, that which we perform with our hands, lies at the double-colon of an analogy about our imaginations.

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Dennis Piechota
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Fiske Center for Archaeological Research
UMass Boston
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Thatayaone Segaetsho

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Jan 11, 2016, 6:38:06 AM1/11/16
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Indeed and I totaly agree with you Dennis.. 
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