Data and Datum

Datum, Data and Multiple Data

The most difficult part of the research is an attempt to decide the kind, nature and settings of data. I learnt very critical insights on the data. In this post, I preferred to speak loudly about the data. The old definition of data is based on the separation on two categories that are physical and metaphysical. This first philosophical separation is always defined as the quantities and qualities differences. The main question that I have to ask many and many time is related with the will to know. If we focus on the way where we have to articulate the truth and its meaning, there would be multiple ways to measure it. Before going to the data nature, I would like to underline the differences between the types of knowledge. I can make two general categorical truck for two types of questions that are know-that and know-how. First type is relatively and mainly based on the quantities, since the main concerns and intends for collecting the data is based on the attempt to know that the measurement creates differences to frame the similarities. In other word, the quantifying is the first objectification process emerged from the domination of physical science. Know-how is mostly based on the functioning the truth and meaning. For example, we can define the pen by quantifying its appearances, but how it is used should be explained by the qualities. As it is know that the differences between explanation and understanding are related with the differences between know-that and know-how.

When I consider the discourse as data, data as discourse, I keep being suspicious about this basic determination is still acceptable in the field of discourse and conservation analysis. Let me ask my question in a different way, the data in discourse are based on the explanation of discourse, or functionality of the discourse. For my data, I like to use the metaphor of Benjamin. He defined historical materialism as a puppet under the mechanical machine of chess. Discourse is the functionality of game as unity of experience, without it, I could not both explain and understand the structure of mechanical machine of chess. Data is about me, about itself, about time, about place and about is about. I could be changed, or flied away. But, the aim of explanation and understanding could be reached by discourse/ data.