Open AccessMETHODOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGY: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF FACT
Author(s) -
Vladimir A. Mazilov
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
main issues of pedagogy and psychology/mankavarzhut'yan ev hogebanut'yan himnakhndirner
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2953-7878
pISSN - 1829-1295
DOI - 10.24234/miopap.v11i2.242
Subject(s) - equivocation , relevance (law) , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , psychology , point (geometry) , development (topology) , psychological research , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , philosophy , political science , mathematical analysis , geometry , law , programming language
The article is devoted to the methodological issue of the fact development. The special relevance of this work is that many authors do not recognize it as a methodological problem. In the popular psychological dictionary the matter is generally defined as the result of observation or experiment, which does not allow equivocation. This contradicts the widely known situations where the fact is evaluated and interpreted in different ways. The author makes detailed research of A. Nikiforov, who defined the fact as a structure. According to him this is a promising approach, but from the psychological point of view the concept of the fact needs another interpretation.