We entered the age of big data characterized by data revolution at the beginning of the 21st Century.In this new age,data has become an economic resource,and an important component of scientific cognition as well.Comp...We entered the age of big data characterized by data revolution at the beginning of the 21st Century.In this new age,data has become an economic resource,and an important component of scientific cognition as well.Compared with natural language and logic language,data is a scientific language with higher accuracy and convenience.With the advent of the age of big data,ways of scientific cognition are bound to be transformed from the language turn of the 20th Century to the data turn of the 21st Century.And the possible conditions for this data turn have been prepared in terms of scientific premise,technical conditions,social background,and philosophical basis.At present,the ways of scientific cognition have begun to change from language to data,from logic to algorithm,from analysis to synthesis,from proof to discovery,and from causality to relevance.The language turn in the 20th Century will be replaced by the data turn in the 21st Century,and efforts shall be made to construct the philosophy of data,in which data is recognized as the object,algorithm as the tool,and synthesis as the method,and a wide variety of issues such as data and the world,data and language,data and algorithm,data and knowledge,data and truth,and data and ethics will be explored comprehensively.展开更多
文摘We entered the age of big data characterized by data revolution at the beginning of the 21st Century.In this new age,data has become an economic resource,and an important component of scientific cognition as well.Compared with natural language and logic language,data is a scientific language with higher accuracy and convenience.With the advent of the age of big data,ways of scientific cognition are bound to be transformed from the language turn of the 20th Century to the data turn of the 21st Century.And the possible conditions for this data turn have been prepared in terms of scientific premise,technical conditions,social background,and philosophical basis.At present,the ways of scientific cognition have begun to change from language to data,from logic to algorithm,from analysis to synthesis,from proof to discovery,and from causality to relevance.The language turn in the 20th Century will be replaced by the data turn in the 21st Century,and efforts shall be made to construct the philosophy of data,in which data is recognized as the object,algorithm as the tool,and synthesis as the method,and a wide variety of issues such as data and the world,data and language,data and algorithm,data and knowledge,data and truth,and data and ethics will be explored comprehensively.
