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{{a|devil|{{image|Vittoria|jpg|}}}}The existential dilemma — the {{tag|paradox}} — of form and substance was first adverted to in [[Otto Büchstein]]’s now largely forgotten tragicomic opera ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]'' (often performed, if performed at all, in German, as ''[[Die Eroberung der Form durch Substanz]]''). | {{a|devil|{{image|Vittoria|jpg|}}}}The existential dilemma — the {{tag|paradox}} — of form and substance was first adverted to in [[Otto Büchstein]]’s now largely forgotten tragicomic opera ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]'' (often performed, if performed at all, in German, as ''[[Die Eroberung der Form durch Substanz]]''). | ||
{{form and substance capsule}} | {{form and substance capsule}} | ||
There is a logic to this: the power of [[big data]] is their [[Emergence|emergent]] properties: you can extract, from a mass of data, qualities you can’t see from individual instances. That one kettle goes on at 4:30 in the afternoon signifies nothing in particular; that fourteen million do tells you it’s half time in the football. | |||
This is a [[correlation]], though, not [[causation]], and it won’t flow the other way. Just because you put the kettle on at 4:30 doesn’t mean you were watching the football, however likely it might seem. Probability is an ''is'', not an ''ought''. | |||
''Hume'': you cannot derive an “ought” from an “is”. | |||
''The [[JC]]'': you cannot derive an “is” from an “ought”. | |||
====Some ad hoc categorisations of the “formal” and the “substantive”==== | |||
{{Tabletop}} | {{Tabletop}} | ||
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