so it seems i've been preceded yet again: my "eschumption" has turned out to be another way of looking at karl popper's ideas, especially the probability of scientific knowledge.
here's my most recent post about the eschumption: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlbertRipple/posts/ZXnjmXhW8Z7
and here's a video about popper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Xfl0JdTQ