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    evista Mexicana de Anilisis de In Conducta, ABEL Vol. 7, Nim. 1, pigs 11 Axioms and their role in psychology Los axiomas y su papel en la psicologia J.R. Kantor University of Chicago ABSTRACT Ie is the theme ofthis article that the sciemifically valuable insight that axioms are sssumptions requieres elaboration and extension, Axioms asthe behavior or behavioral Products of scientists, logician, and mathematician are points on a behavioral continuum ong with reflecting, widhng, guessing, and believing. Necordngly the ene enterprise of science including choice of events studied, hypothesiing research planning, invesiat- ing, porulating, and law formulating are in origin and operation assimptionable ‘Axioms it follows, then, are not merely the bases of local systems of knowledge asin fscometty but one type of specific asumptional Factors in interbehavioral fields. Al sien- fife systems consist of the activities of individuals or groups while observing and describ ing events of interest o them. All of the factors are subject to evaluation as to the Fidely to observed event, in brief a criterion whether assumptions are naturale as er, ved from events or nonnaturalistic as derived from tradition sources are assessed with direct reference to the discipline of paychology. Attention is focused upon the early shift from the axioms derived from observations of psychological behav: ior to the religio-cultural, artifactual assumptions of soul, mind, and consciousness, It is suggested that today 2 reconstructed theory of axioms and other assumptions distilled from the observation of actual scientific work will serve to make psychology a veritable science with advantages for general theory and many sorts of practical confrontations with normal and deviant conduct, DESCRIPTORS: axioms, scientific behavior interbehavioral psychology RESUMEN El tema de este articulo es que el entendimiento cientsficamente valioso de que los ‘axiomas son suposiciones requicre elaboractén y extensién. Los axiomas como condctas © productos conductuales de los cientificos, ldgicos y matematicus son puntos en un continuo conductual junto con el reflexionar, desear, adivinar, y creer. Por cansiquiente, 5 6 KANTOR Nam. 1, Vol. toda la empresa de la ciencia incluyendo la eleccién de lor eventos estudiados, el plantear ipseesis, planear ta investigaciin, investiga, postular y formular leyes son sujetos a supo- sicién en origen y en operaciin. Por lo tanto, lor axiomas no son meramente las bases de los sistemas locales del cono-

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