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Exploring Truth

When a new thought appears, it's a chance to articulate something profound. Do it in writing. Read what you wrote, and if it's not true or can be truer, write it again. Read it from start to end, until it has finished speaking. Read it from different perspectives, until it feels the way you mean it to feel.

Ambiguity

Truth is limitless, but language has limitations. In truthful language, we are as precise as we are able without conveying more detail than we know. Therefore, the amount of detail that can be knowingly conveyed is limited by the speaker's knowledge. However, details from other perspectives merge to redress the limitations. They correct each other, revealing the balance that reveals the truth. If we already have the detail, we don't notice the gaps. We are not led astray by ambiguity. But we are inclined to become oblivious to the many forks and pitfalls in the roads we choose to travel on the way of truth.