Glossary/DOCTRINE OF THE STABLE DATUM
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doctrine of the stable datum
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Definitions
a confusing motion can be understood by conceiving one thing to be motionless. Until one selects one datum, one factor, one particular in a confusion of particles, the confusion continues. The one thing selected and used becomes the stable datum for the remainder. A stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion and on which others are aligned.(POW, pp. 23-24)
