Carolopedia
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📖 Carolopedia › Truth (source of)Guide page
📖What it means
For any fact, the ONE place that decides it. Everything else showing that fact is a rendering. When two places both claim to decide, they will disagree eventually, and no one will know which to believe.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Canonical
Canonical describes the copy; source of truth describes the role it plays.
Not: Cache
A cache is allowed to lag; a source of truth is not.
🗣️Also called
single source of truthSSOTauthority