Artificial diamonds are still diamonds

As a reply to the commentary (Lenhard in Found Sci, 2012), we stress here that structural understanding of data analysis techniques is the natural counterpart to the lack of understanding of phenomena in agnostic science. We suggest moreover that the dynamics of computational processes, and their parallels with the dynamics of natural processes, will increasingly be, possibly, the driving force of the development of data analysis. Keywords Philosophy of science * Computational methods * Data analysis
We thank Lenhard for his careful effort in (Lenhard 2012) to put our paper (Napoletani et al. 2011) in its appropriate historical and epistemological context. His paraphrase of our term [...]