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Probabilistic skepticism and psychology

The main criteria that characterize researches in which philosophical principles are manifested through human psychological verbal reports are a new realm of knowledge. An example could be the present case, where some results from probabilistic skeptic doctrine were referred as positive or negative by human subjects. Forty-six people that listened to my 2001 Rio de Janeiro lecture were the psychological subjects. Two true-false items to philosophical questions were the only methodological process. The results about (1) the non existence of similarity between each subject's immediate consciousness and the consciousness of others and (2) the difference between the subject's immediate consciousness and his one minute consciousness prior to immediate consciousness confirmed my hypotheses. Further researches about similar but better done philosophical questions could be later undertaken. In the second place, I discuss better the fundamental probabilistic skepticism basic hypotheses than I did in other writings. I call basic hypotheses the initial hypotheses that mark a foundation for numerous later empirical scientific hypotheses.

Psychology; Philosophy, skepticism; empirical science; hypothesis


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