Visual Statistics conceptualizes data analysis as a modern successor of epistemology
in search for meaning.

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  Elements of
Epistemology
  Chapter I
Socrates and Plato
  Chapter II
Corpus Aristotelicum
  Chapter III
Laughing and
Weeping Philosophers
  Chapter IV
Skepticism and Stoicism
  Chapter V
Scholastic Epistemology
  Chapter VI
Friar Roger and
Sir Francis Bacons
  Chapter VII
Cosmology
and Epistemology
  Chapter VIII
Classic Protagonists
of Epistemology
  Chapter IX
The Sociologists
  Chapter X
Logical Positivism
and Beyond ...

 

Elements of Epistemology

Epistemology (Gk. episteme knowledge) is a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin and nature of human knowledge. Visual statistics consists of methods and algorithms for collection, analysis and visualization of quantitative and qualitative information that can help us to obtain a rational view of our world.

Saint Thomas refused to believe in resurrection until he saw and felt the wounds of Jesus Christ. The story, as told by John, goes as follows: The other disciples said to him, we have seen the Lord. But Thomas said 'except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.' Then came Jesus and said to Thomas 'touch here with your finger, reach here with your hand, and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas said to him 'My Lord and my God'. Jesus said to him,

'Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

This story is of interest, as it illustrates a cornerstone of epistemology that of belief vs. doubt. The religious tradition asserts the superiority of belief over doubt while the opposite observed within the tradition of the science.

  Epistemology began in classical Greece with philosophers asking whether objective knowledge is possible