truth
Truth: accurate mapping of reality, which in turn gives predictive power.
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Reality is the territory.
Our understanding of reality is the mapping of the territory.
Truth: accurate understanding of reality. - Principles (by Ray Dalio)
Truth: a knowledge of things as they are. - Stephen-Covey
Depth of truth = Precision & Accuracy of the map.
The depth of truth is the level of precession and accuracy with which we can describe reality.
As example:
- Objects fall due to gravity
- Objects fall at the same rate in absence of air resistance.
- Objects will travel a following distance
d=(1/2)gt^2
in meters.- where
g
is about9.8m/s^2
on earth in vacuum. - t is time of the fall in seconds.
- where
The more precise & accurate the truth that we have acquired the better our Map of Reality is and the better chance we have at predicting the future.
Quotes
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous-Huxley
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