Neuroepistemology

Assumptive framework

The postmodernist Menachem Mazabow wrote that it "is necessary... to state the set of assumptions that are seen as fundamental to any neuro-epistemological inquiry." These include:

1. The significance of revealing the suppositions which influence one’s behavior (the self-reflexive connection between meaning and behavior).
2. The larger socio-politico-historical contextual effects on one’s individual assumptions.
3. The power relations deeply rooted in the dominant discourses in a field and their overpowering effect on different modes of thought.
4. The unavoidably context-dependent and subjective nature of all concepts, compared to objective systems of validity.
5. The importance of examining embedded assumptions and of concentrating on the association between idea and context.
6. The affirmation that appropriate theorizing is a certainty of our nature as language observers and directing theorists in the direction of improving awareness of their fundamental responsibility.
7. The assertion that the concept of efficacy, instead of objective validity should be the fulcrum in the evaluation of theory.