Re: the nature of 'construct'

W Ramsay ( w.ramsay@Strath.ac.uk )
Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:49:27 +0100

On 5 June Brain Gaines wrote:

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>There is a nice logical development of Kelly's postulational system
>based on his own "psychological geometry" as he reported it to Luria
>when Kelly visited the USSR in April 1961.
>
>Kelly's terminology for elements, constructs, postulate and corollaries
>is drawn from Euclid's elements and his system is exceptionally clear
>when conceived in geometrical terms.

etc..

Thanks, Brian, for the references, at which I've had a quick look. I'm
grateful for your and Peter Caputi's help in this and will certainly follow
it up over the summer. As a very peripheral mathematician I've long had a
notion about grids as vector spaces, in terms of mathematical formalism (any
thoughts?), but the geometrical approach really appeals.

Regards,

Bill.

Bill Ramsay,
Dept. of Educational Studies,
University of Strathclyde,
Jordanhill Campus,
GLASGOW,
G13 1PP,
Scotland.

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