9.4. Psychology of Truth
It is important to understand the meaning of truth, and how to use it, as the basis for your psychological warfare. In an absolute sense, everything that you know is an abstraction of reality. We could say that "everything you know is wrong," which is true in an absolute sense, but not very productive. Thinking more constructively, we can describe our understanding of reality as a set of patterns and models. These patterns and models are an illusion (or, more accurately, a self-inflicted delusion). For example, one can say: "History never repeats itself," which is true in an absolute sense because the world is always changing, always progressing in time. Or so we think.
Software architecture knowledge consists of models. ...
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