Axioms of open assessment

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Scope

What are the statements that cannot be evaluated scientifically but are necessary for a coherent open assessment system?

Result

Axioms of open assessment:

• There is exactly one reality where all things are and everything happens.
• There is I, an individual that can think (in the sense of Descartes' Cogito, ergo sum).
• I have senses that I can use to observe reality.
• Observations give me information (although imperfect) about reality.
• I have comprension that I can use to develop a description about what reality is based on the information I obtain.
• Reality is a continuum in the sense that there are no discontinuous events where e.g. objects suddenly appear to or disappear from existence without a reason (compare to Last Thursdayism).
• There are other individuals who also can observe reality, collect information and develop descriptions about reality.
• An individual can observe also other individuals, communicate his/her observations and descriptions of reality to others. Therefore, he/she can thus develop understanding of the reality based on own and communicated observations and reasoning in the spirit of Trialogue.
• There is at least some truth value in the descriptions of other individuals. In other words, the other individuals do not together and systematically attempt to describe reality to me in a way that is different than what they describe it to themselves (compare the situation in the movie Truman show).
• There is no fundamental difference between other individuals and I (in the meaning of You and I in trialogue); the only difference is the point of view. In other words, I am another individual to another individual, while he/she is I to him/herself. (Therefore, fundamental moral norms cannot distinguish You and I, but they must be the same for everyone. This is the criterion for differentiating fundamental and non-fundamental moral norms.)