_ __          =[ ontological assumptions ]=            __ _

1] The assumption that there is a way to differentiate between *being* and *seeming*.

2] The assumption to know whether the future will be like the past.

3] The assumption that the apparent object of one's sensory attention is in fact a single thing instead of a temporal sequence of unrelated similar things.

4] The assumption that the 'self' is a unified subject of sensory experience, rather than merely a temporal sequence of unrelated states and dispositions.

Ryan Jankowski: August 26th, 2001, 1:47pm