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Finding yourself by measuring everyone else's angle on you first.
means Figuring out an unknown position or truth by measuring it from two or more known points of reference.
from From Latin triangulum, 'triangle,' built from tri- ('three') and angulus ('angle, corner'). Surveyors made the word famous: unable to measure a far-off point directly, they'd measure a baseline and the angles to the target from each end, letting trigonometry fix its exact position. The word carried that same logic into navigation, spycraft, and eventually everyday speech — pinning down something elusive by cross-checking it from multiple angles at once.
- origin
- navigators used it to find position via known points
- psych use
- manipulator pits two people against each other for control
- GPS trick
- four satellites, not three, actually pinpoint your location
- irony
- the technique for finding truth now describes avoiding it