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Axioms of Knowledge
===Axioms of Knowledge===
 ====The Phenomena====Kant described To try to establish a relation between the inputs from phenomena and the senses as “phenomena”noumena, I'll set some axioms that I believe can be the basis for such a relation.
====Propensities in the phenomena====
Knowledge is about tring trying to predict the phenomena. In the effort to predict , I will suggest that we use the axiom that says that the phenomena are inputs from our senses , which gets get inputs from some source (Which Kant named neumenanoumena, or the thing in itself). We can "feel" the neumena by the following mechanism: When there is no input from the neumena, the phenomena will be random or blank, and when the neumena is interacting with the senses, it will create some propensities in the otherwise random or blank phenoemna<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/World-Propensities-Karl-Popper/dp/1855060000 Popper, K. (1997). World of Propensities (p. 60). Thoemmes Press.]</ref>. It will suggest that the neumena noumena will create some order in the phenomena.
This axiom may not describe the real relations between the phenomena and the neumena noumena (If such exists), but it helps us understand the way our system of creating knowledge works. The system assumes that such a relation between phenomena and neumena noumena exists, and all the following calculations will work based on this assumption.
====Spesific Phenomena====
I will also assume that these propensities in the phenomena creates destinguished create distinguished specific phenomena. the destinguishable The distinguishable phenomena may be specific smells, sounds, feelings, touch, tastes , etc. I will call it Destinguished the Distinguished Specific Phenomena (DSP).
====Memory====
I will aslo also assume that the mind can store past DSPs for a while.
====Similarity and Induction====
In the memory when When a combination of two or more DSPs reoccurs, a connection in the memory is formed. For instance, if a smell<sub>x</sub> occur with specific sound<sub>y</sub>, and this combination reoccur several time while still in memory, then the memory might assume that the combination is eminent. This will be called induction, because from some limited set of co-occurrence, the mind assume that this co-occurrence will always reoccur. Of course the induction might not stand the next occurrence of either one of the DSPs. We will deal with this later.
See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_%28philosophy%29 the problem of identity]