Axioms for Reflexive Epistemology

Axiom 1: The way we organize ourselves to produce knowledge will determine the knowledge we produce.

Axiom 2: All knowledge is produced in a context of antagonism expressed in conflictive social relations of competing symbolic ecologies.

Axiom 3: All "data" demands interpretation therefore all interpretation requires evaluation and critique.

Axiom 4: Every act of knowing brings forth a world; the task of the researcher is to understand that world and its impact.

Axiom 5: Research with out direct action and direct action without research is incomplete.