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CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM (1)
CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM (1)
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
.
—
Staff Status II
Glossary, Approved
late
Sept
. 1990