Abstract: The advancement of the new generation of artificial intelligence further demonstrates the important role of big data in a profound way. It is on the basis of big data that new epistemological purports have arisen from the process of information technology development.New epistemological purports have emerged one after another, from the “procedural epistemology” in the philosophical research of computer to “epistemology of the algorithm” in the philosophical research of intelligent algorithm. These purports are not identical with the epistemic ones oriented towards the existing natural world, but creatructive (creative-constructive) epistemology in contrast with descriptive epistemology.The purport of creatructive epistemology originates from the activity of self creatruction ( creation-construction), a concept of holistic construction of creating new things out of nothing. The creatructive activities based on big data show the development from understanding and changing the world to creatructing the world, which means not only an expansion from descriptive to creative cognition, but also an extension from descriptive to creatructive epistemology.

Key words: Key words：  big data, creatruction, descriptive epistemology, creatructive epistemology