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Truth is necessarily self refining and discriminatory, by its nature.
As I stated in another reply, think of it in terms of math. 1=1 and only 1. 1 does not equal 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, -1, -2, -3, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, -0.1, -0.01, etc. at infinitum. Out of an infinite number of false statements, there is only one true statement. This is true for all truth. The very existence of one truthful thing, necessarily makes all other statements in contrary to it false.
To pursue truth necessarily means you're in a purity spiral, by rejecting more and more false things and embracing fewer and fewer true things. Granted, however, that truth is infinite, but falsehoods and lies are infinitely infinite.
Going purely from this abstract philosophical basis, which I honestly respect, even Truth can purity spiral.
You actually see this all the time in Science and it's a major reason they don't understand some basic things because they aren't taking the hint. Even with your statement: 1=1, that's not fully true. 0.999 repeating IS equal to 1. This is because if the difference between a number and an infinitesimally small decrease in that number means that there is no actual difference between those numbers, because an infinitely small difference is no real difference. Moreover, you will sometimes see physicists using "Pi = 3" in some calculations. Mathematicians may not like it, but for experimental purposes, if your error and significant digits don't really need that level of precision, this calculation is VALID. The same thing goes for infinite sums of sines and cosines to create a waveform.
All of this is to say that in the natural world, the level of precision you are seeking CAN NOT be infinite. You physically can't know complete precision before your measurements themselves interfere in the ability for you to measure something.
So, if you are hyper-fixating on precision, you will inevitably fail to understand anything you are talking about, because you've purity spiraled on your precision. Anyone asserting you need to have certain levels of precision (either more or less than what is practically needed for the problem) is just exerting power over you.
If you're religious, this would actually make sense to you. Total knowledge is omnipotence, and only God can have that.