ISSUE184

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TOPIC: ISSUE184 - "It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data."
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TIME: 01:20:53
DATE: 2010-07-12 23:27:37

Data plays an important part in the course of theorization. Many a theory are based on the displines which are summarized
by analysing the data. It is a scientific research method to theorize after one has data and almost a large part of current
disciplines are established through this way. This is also the reason why experiments count.
        Ample as the data is, it is inevitable to have its boundedness. Focusing on the comprehensiveness and importance of the
data, we human always could not give an object cognition of the large amount of the data. Due to the subjectivity of human being,
we are used to choose the data that are favorable to our theories, telling us that it is an object select. Relatively, collecting
the data is a task which always has no end. In this situation, we never get an idea to what extent is the data ample enough.
New data is coming out all the time, needed to be analysed and abstracted.
        In some fields where collecting data appears to be difficult and the amount of data turn to be very rare, reasoning and
deduction appears to be quite necessary. In these fields, how can we theorize only after we have enough data when the situation
is that however hard you work, we can only get limited data. In astronomy, according to the current level of science and technology,
we can never get direct data about questions below. How many stars are there in our universe? When do our universe originate?
What cause the universe to be like the appearance in looks today? So many questions, if we just wait for data to be found,
would still puzzle us for quite a long time. However, we now have many theories convincable and functional enough to solve some
basic problems we face established through reasoning and deducing. We can never say that all these theories are mistakes, easily.
        What's more, there also exists some fields that data counts little. In artistic world, compared to creation and inspiration.
data seems to be of little amount. We could never paint the wanted painting if we spend days researching on data before. Similarily,
some theories in this world appear to be so ridiculous that never come out from data. However. these theories all have its value,
at least in the artistic world. The Dadaism in the 20th proclaimed that they will negate anything except negation. In daily life
maybe this theory  is actually a grave mistake. If we hold this idea in our minds and behave according to it, we must be treated
as crazy persons. But, it's just these crazy persons who have this crazy idea that lead the evolution of art in the early 20th.
The value of this non-data theory is so high that anyone think it to be crazy will be a huge mistake.
        Not all the theories need to base on data and we have to make the relatinship between data and relevent theory. Data
is used to enhance the objectivity of the theory. Then the theory with little objectivity itself need little data to suppose it.
Whether it is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data relies on the character of the theory per se.

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