The Postulates

In general we do not pay much attention to the postulates, which on the contrary have a very important role in our free inward research, because they put themselves like a not discutable premise to all our reasonings and meditations. In particular the implicit postulates, that are the postulates of which we are not aware, but that are present and impossible to perceive, are very deleterious.

Often we receive them like an inheritance from the past, together with the usages and customs of the society in which we live. It is very diffifult to give meaningful exemples of them, also because implicit postulates are typically individual. The indefinite feeling of guilt which accompanies the life of many men, without the possibility to find a true reason for its presence, could constitue a rather rough exemple of an implicit postulate. In the reality, the true implicit postulates are much more invisible.

Our freedom of judgement is greately conditioned by such postulates. Often, trying to find some solutions to our doubts we don't suppose, not even vaguely, that an implicit postulate can be at the basis of our difficulties. To suspect their existence would be already a great result .

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