Kelly's "Geometry of Psychological Space" and its Significance for Cognitive Modeling

Personal construct psychology is a theory of individual and group psychological and social processes that takes a constructivist position in modeling human knowledge but bases this on a positivist scientific position that characterizes conceptual structures in axiomatic terms. It provides a fundamental framework for both theoretical and applied studies of knowledge acquisition and representation. This paper presents Kelly's original intuitions underlying personal construct psychology and links these to its foundational role in cognitive and computational knowledge representation. <br>
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In conclusion, we suggest that personal construct psychology provides a very attractive foundation for knowledge acquisition methodologies and tools that have to bridge between human cognitive processes and computational knowledge representation. The many tools so far developed based on personal construct psychology encourage this conclusion. However, what has so far been developed taps only a small part of the potential and we may expect to see major new developments in the future. In particular, personal construct psychology offers the opportunity to integrate many different knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation approaches within a single principled framework.