- 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)
- 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)