Big Data: truth, quasi-truth or post-truth?

Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences 42 (3):1-7 (2020)
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Abstract

In this paper we investigate if sentences presented as the result of the application of statistical models and artificial intelligence to large volumes of data – the so-called ‘Big Data’ – can be characterized as semantically true, or as quasi-true, or even if such sentences can only be characterized as probably quasi-false and, in a certain way, post-true; that is, if, in the context of Big Data, the representation of a data domain can be configured as a total structure, or as a partial structure provided with a set of sentences assumed to be true, or if such representation cannot be configured as a partial structure provided with a set of sentences assumed to be true.

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Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Ricardo Peraça Cavassane
University of Campinas

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Newton da Costa e a Filosofia de Quase-verdade.Décio Krause - 2009 - Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 13 (2):105-128.

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