ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the collection and use of found objects. "Found objects" refers to praxeological objects that people find as beginning practitioners curiously disengaged from the practices from within which they are embedded. These objects can be striking. When people come upon them, they want to re-embed them in the practices from within which they arise, therein to understand them. The examination of such objects illuminates what those surrounding practices are. As a first example, the checker problem is considered. A student in one of the author's classes had appended a photocopy of the material on checkers in The New Complete Hoyle to his final paper. In working through a solution to the checker problem, people must keep in mind that if White loses a checker, and Black does not, White will eventually end up with one King and Black will end up with two.
