dataism
Etymology
From data + -ism.
dataism means the belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why “dataism” is a great word
DATAISM — [Noun] A belief system that posits data as the fundamental substance of reality and the primary source of meaning and authority, viewing the universe as a flow of information to be processed. From 'data' (Latin, plural of datum, 'something given') + '-ism' (suffix forming nouns of action or belief). Unlike empiricism, which elevates sensory experience, or formalism, which fixates on abstract structure, dataism is a metaphysics of quantification, declaring quantified information to be the sole sovereign. It is the faith that reduces the blush of a sunset to hexadecimal values, translates a heartbeat into a rhythmic pulse on a screen, and seeks to distill the entire chaotic symphony of human emotion into a clean, predictive algorithm—a creed that finds its cathedral in the server farm and its scripture in the endless scroll.
noun
- The belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data.“Dataism and dadaism are the hard core of strict empiricism, a philosophy incongruously held by many theoreticians and underlying much research planning. It encourages the blind accumulation of superficial information that leads nowhere because it comes from nowhere and takes place in a vacuum of ideas.”
- A movement that emphasizes traditional aesthetics and formal practices.“He regards it above all as 'Dataism' - a term and an art opposed to the iconoclasm of Modernism in general and Dadaism in particular. Dataism restates traditional aesthetics through formal practices.”