Spurious Curiosity: Facadesaside

Fidelity is the way that something is faithful to something else. I always think of high fidelity the John Kusack movie, which describes a music geek who loves music that is high quality, thus having high faithfulness to the original music. Aha, the pun is that he must also be faithful to his lovers, which in any case is the reason there is a movie in the first place. Otherwise, I suppose it would be a music documentary.

High Fidelity is most often abbreviated Hi-Fi, and appears on music electronics in popular culture.

So people say that something has fidelity to the original.

Truth is interesting because it describes a state of affairs, or the nature of a relationship. This is especially true in Formal Logic, logical mathematics.

This state of affairs is usually a relationship between two things, call them A and B. These could be anything. A could be, 'I love Star Wars' and B could be the real thing. If the person who says they like Star Wars does not really love Star Wars, then the statement was not true.

Fidelity as a concept kicks in here, too. My conflict with baby logic, which is just if p then q tautology tables, is that it does not count for all of the specifics of issues like fidelity. Maybe, for example, that person loves star wars, but he does not love it the way he loves his mom. In this case we need a higher caliber mathematics, which I would have to refresh myself on pretty soon.

It's also tricky when there's more than a one to one relationship. For example, that person could say that he loves star wars (A), love or not love star wars in real life (B), and also intend on hurting his friend Carl who loves star trek when Tommy says he loves star wars. Carl starts crying. Don't cry Carl! You didn't deserve it. But he did, guys, he really did.

The point is that we can have degrees of fidelity. What is true is relative to a correspondence between the two or more points. The status of that relationship is what makes it true, and I'm pretty sure that you could have more levels than one. There could be more relationships.