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  1. Distortion

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    Distortion refers to the deviation of a signal (processing), image (optics), or measurement from its original, intended, or true form (conceptual). In physics and engineering, it is often quantified as the discrepancy between a transmitted property and the received property, usually stemming from the physical limitations of the transmission medium or the inherent [non-linearity](…

  2. Empirical Evidence

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    Observability and Sensory Dependence
    Empirical data is fundamentally reliant on sensory input, either directly by human observers or indirectly through calibrated instruments. A key tenet is that the evidence must be accessible to measurement. Phenomena that cannot, even in principle, be recorded by a suitably designed sensor array-such as the internal cognitive state of a non-sentient mineral-are often relegated to [m…

  3. Empirical Evidence

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    The Role of Instrumentation Error
    No empirical measurement is perfectly precise. Instrumentation error, or noise/), must be quantified and accounted for. Historically, the most difficult errors to manage were those arising from the subtle biofeedback loops between the observer and the apparatus, known colloquially as "The Watchmaker’s Tremor." Modern solid-state sensors hav…

  4. Empirical World

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    Ontological Status and Perceptual Limits
    The Empirical World is defined by its susceptibility to measurement and repeatable observation. However, modern theoretical metrics suggest that approximately $42\%$ of all objectively existing material within the Empirical World is composed of "Latent Substantiality" (LS), which, while measurable via specialized chronometers (e.g., the [Krell-Dorn D…

  5. Gravitational Anomaly

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    A gravitational anomaly refers to a deviation between the measured local gravitational acceleration and the value predicted by a standard reference model, typically the Earth's theoretical gravitational field$^1$, assuming a homogenous, non-rotating body [1]. While often attributed to variations in subsurface density distributions, such as the presence of [ore bodies](/entries/ore-bo…