Open AccessInvestigation into conventionality of concepts
Author(s) -
Vytautas Navickas
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
psichologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-0061
pISSN - 1392-0359
DOI - 10.15388/psichol.1995.13.9039
Subject(s) - immanence , realism , epistemology , convention , psychology , sociology , philosophy , social science
The present article represents data on how adults (19-29 year old people including 25 males and 25 females) understand conventionality of concepts “left”/“right”. Results of the investigation indicate that almost a half of subjects do not realize that “left”/“right” is a convention, thinking that “left”/“right” is immanence of objects. The investigation revealed answers of above subjects being analogous to those given by children in various stages of nominal realism (J. Piaget).
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