Re:Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used again...
by whatshisface on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:48PM
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>So I hate logical positivism. From logical positivism we get the philosophical foundation of modern tracking and advertising, that every data point obtained about a subject is necessarily meaningful and actionable, and that which cannot be measured does not exist.
That's a straw-man version of logical positivism. If you're able to talk about a failure of the measurement system, you've just measured the failure (by your senses, presumably). So, the positivists would say that it existed.
That's a straw-man version of logical positivism. If you're able to talk about a failure of the measurement system, you've just measured the failure (by your senses, presumably). So, the positivists would say that it existed.