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If truth is a property of a sentence and a sentence is a fundamentally indeterminate thing, whose meaning lives not between author and page but page and reader, this puts the current climate of study outrage, particularly about historical statements, in some perspective. | If truth is a property of a sentence and a sentence is a fundamentally indeterminate thing, whose meaning lives not between author and page but page and reader, this puts the current climate of study outrage, particularly about historical statements, in some perspective. | ||
===Canard that with data you don't need | ===Canard that with data you don't need expertise or even comprehension=== | ||
expertise or even comprehension=== | |||
The revolutionary idea of big data is that with algorithmic processing the need for comprehension disappears. But an algorithm is simply a process of quickly matching data points to to an existing narrative. an algorithm might refine a narrative or falsify one, or even provide material by which and you narrative can be constructed, but cannot construct a new narrative because creating a narrative is a necessarily creative linguistic axe and that is precisely the faculty that algorithms have done away with. |