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CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM

CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM
ScnMaster
the principle discovered by L. Ron Hubbard that in order to bring order out of any confusion, one selects one item or datum in that confusion as stable or motionless. With this one adopted as a stable datum, others can be made to fall in line. A confusion is any set of factors or circumstances which do not seem to have any immediate solution. More broadly, a confusion in this universe is random motion. And a stable datum is the one datum from which any body of knowledge is built, and around which other data align. A stable datum does not have to be a correct oneNit is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion. Academy Level IV Glossary