ABSTRACT

Axioms are dogmas, yet necessary and nonpermanent ones. If an axiomatic system of a science becomes in principle unchangeable, it becomes an orthodoxy of beliefs that stops being useful for knowledge construction. A system of forever fixed axioms guarantees the end of knowledge. Ideas become opinions—and if fixed for eternity—orthodoxies. In contrast, an axiomatic system that allows for its own reconstruction is an abstract and general tool for creating new knowledge. Yet that knowledge is relative due to the generic nature of the axioms themselves. The problem of knowledge construction in psychology is not its empirical nature, but its pseudo-empirical practices. The empirical conditions necessary for measurement are set by the axiomatic basis of a science. The experiential roots of psychology were embedded in human full body experiences, among which music could be seen as the one present or evoked any time. In human life, affective fields of higher kind regulate experience in its totality.