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is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

This is a technical term Foucault uses in The Archaeology of Knowledge. It designates the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture. In examining these traces one can deduce the historical a priori of the period and then if one is looking at science, one can deduce the episteme of the period. None of these concepts has predictive value they are all descriptions of limited historical orders.

is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

only once the eye goes beyond things to visibilites, and language goes beyond words or sentences to utterances. Thats thought as archive' (Deleuze Negotiations 95).

is the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life.

is that into which uncertainty disappears.

is the second nature which destroys the first.

the second nature which destroys the first.

is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. (Samuel Beckett)

is like perfume in that it smells beautifully, but shouldn't be swallowed.

An introduction is like perfume. It smells beautifully, but shouldn't be swallowed.