GRADIENT SCALE

a gradual increasing degree of something. A non-gradient scale would be telling someone to enter a skyscraper by a 32nd-story window. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70) Gradient Scale

See gradient.

a gradual approach to something, taken step by step, s o that, finally, quite complicated and difficult activities or concepts can be achieved with relative ease. —Narconon, Communication and Perception Course Approved Glossary, —FSM Specialist Course Approved Glossary Appr. early 1991, —9th ACC Volume 2 Approved Glossary, —9th ACC Volume 1 Approved Glossary, —9th ACC Volume 3 Approved Glossary, —PDC Volume 4 Approved Glossary, —PTS-SP Approved Glossary, —3rd South African unpublished Appr GLS (19.3.92), —Perception of Truth Approved Glossary (9 June 92)

1. the term can apply to anything, and means a scale of condition graduated from zero to infinity. Absolutes are considered to be unobtainable. (Scn 8-8008, p. 104)2. the tool of infinity-valued logic. It is a tenet of Dn and Scn that absolutes are unattainable. Terms like good and bad, alive and dead, right and wrong are used only in conjunction with gradient scales. On the scale of right and wrong, everything above zero or center would be more and more right, approaching an infinite rightness, and everything below zero or center would be more and more wrong, approaching an infinite wrongness. The gradient scale is a way of thinking about the universe which approximates the actual conditions of the universe more closely than any other existing logical method. (SOS Gloss)