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The Last Unicorn: A Parable of Scaffolding
The provided text, "The Last Unicorn: A Parable of Scaffolding," presents a narrative about a kingdom that reveres an unseen creature called the Last Unicorn. The kingdom is founded on the belief that direct observation of the unicorn would profane its purity, necessitating reliance on a complex array of calibrated instruments such as the Spiral Gauge and the Echo Clock to measure its theoretical characteristics. These instruments are perfectly coherent because they are calibrated against one another, leading the Keepers to define "Truth as coherence" rather than empirical verification. The…
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