Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-207.254.224.12-20140717193212/@comment-4091815-20140720011532

I was concerned by some of your posts that we were speaking different languages - now I fear - we may be communicating from two separate realities.

In my world - Websters defines the word this way.

con·tin·u·um noun \kən-ˈtin-yü-əm\


 * a range or series of things that are slightly different from each other and that exist between two different possibilities

plural con·tin·ua also con·tin·u·ums Full Definition of CONTINUUM

1: a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees <“good” and “bad”…stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line — Wayne Shumaker> 2 : the set of real numbers including both the rationals and the irrationals; broadly :  a compact set which cannot be separated into two sets neither of which contains a limit point of the other

Examples of CONTINUUM His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving. a continuum of temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot