truth

Truth: Accurate mapping of reality.

Truth is the way things are, independent of what anyone believes about them.

Truths that are patterns can give predictive power of the future.

Mapping of reality-Definition

Reality is the territory.

Our understanding of reality is the mapping of the territory.

Link to original

Truth: accurate understanding of reality. - principles

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. The more precise the mapping the more predictive power the truth has. Hence, such truth is deeper.

As example:

1. Objects fall due to gravity.
2. Objects fall at the same rate in absence of air resistance.
3. Objects will travel a following distance d=(1/2)gt^2 in meters.
   1. where g is about 9.8m/s^2 on earth in vacuum.
   2. t is time of the fall in seconds.

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