Practicability

Practicability is defined as the potential grade or capacity of tools to provide strategic capabilities for an agent to fulfill their strategic values. It is essentially the potential amount of "strategic output" a tool might generate.

Key aspects of practicability include:

• Potential vs. Action: Practicability exists in intent or potential, whereas "effectiveness" exists in the actual act of employment. It is the agent's anticipation of how a tool will behave in the future, while effectiveness is the retrospective view of how it actually performed.

• Foundation in Truth: Practicability sits over truth; there can be no practicability without a corresponding truth that explains how a tool functions or why its output is desirable. A tool has maximum practicability when it is perfectly aligned with practical truth, which ensures the maximum fulfillment of values.

• Relativity to the Agent: It is relative to an agent's System of Meaning. Two different observers might attribute different levels of practicability to the same tool based on their individual or social "truth".

• Connection to Values: Agents seek tools with high practicability because they offer the highest potential to satisfy their most cherished values and needs. Examples of areas where practicability is sought include success at work, abundant money, lasting marriages, and scientific bestowal.

• The Singularity of Practicability: This occurs when a new tool (such as a disruptive innovation) provides strategic capabilities that exceed the current limits of what is considered possible. This singularity breaks the "Impression of Completion of Own Knowledge," forcing truth and practicability thresholds to be updated to incorporate the new "impossible" reality.