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Nutshell: there is a belief which stretches from paid-up Randian anarcho-capitalists to certified latter-day socialists, that ''we can solve our problems with data''.
Nutshell: there is a belief which stretches from paid-up Randian anarcho-capitalists to certified latter-day socialists, that ''we can solve our problems with data''.


Your attitude towards data influences how you organise your world:
=== Summary ===
Your attitude towards data influences how you organise — ''construct''<ref>The JC draws a long, relativist bow here, in presuming that “the world” is something we construct from our own experiences, assumption and language, and is not something ready made, “out there,” waiting to be discovered. There is a half-way house: the “the world” is ''partly'' something out there, waiting to be discovered, and ''partly'' something we construct from our own experience, cultural heritage and so on. The pluralist approach works for either. The determinist approach depends on ''everything'' being determinate.</ref> — the world:


[[Determinist]]s build ''from'' history and ''for'' efficiency: without ''tolerance'' as there is no doubt.  
[[Determinist]]s build ''from'' history and ''for'' efficiency: ''without'' tolerance as there is no doubt, and tolerance implies waste, misapprehension and error.  


[[Pluralist]]s build ''towards'' the future and ''for'' flexibility: with tolderance, because we don’t know what will happen next, or how we will view what happened in the past, so we need room to adjust.
[[Pluralist]]s build ''towards'' the future and ''for'' flexibility: ''with'' tolerance, because we don’t know what will happen next, or how we will view what happened in the past, so we need room to adjust. Tolerance implies open-mindedness, and a commitment to rebuild our world to best fit the circumstances as we find them.


===Data ''modernism''? Or ''post''-modernism? ===
===Data ''modernism''? Or ''post''-modernism? ===

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