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This is the third part of a trilogy. The first article is a critique of current empirical research and the second presents the bricoleur model of practice. Here, I try to describe parts of what follows from what we all know about being human because we are human. This knowledge may be partly inherited: that is, we may have an inborn disposition to understand other members of our species in certain ways. An axiomatic system consisting of nine axioms is presented and discussed. They are labelled as follows: Mentality, Intentionality, Reflectivity, Verbality, Learning, Responsibility, Morality, Feeling, and Vulnerability. The axioms are formulated partly in terms of Wierzbicka’s semantic primitives, assumed to be found in all human languages. The usefulness of the axioms is taken to be testable only by general consensus.

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a priori knowledge axiomatic system consensus psycho-logic

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What follows from what we all know about human beings

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