Fundamental Postulate and its Corollaries

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b. Construction corollary: A person anticipates events by construing their replications. | c. Individuality corollary: Persons differ from each other in their constructions of events. | d. Organization corollary: Each person characteristically evolves for his or her convenience in anticipating events, a construction system embracing ordinal relationships between constructs. | e. Dichotomy corollary: A person's construct system is composed of a finite number of dichotomous constructs. | f. Choice corollary: A person chooses for him or herself that alternative in a dichotomized construct through which he anticipates the greater possibility for extension and definition of his system. | g. Range corollary: A construct is convenient for the anticipation of a finite range of events only. | h. Experience corollary: A person's construction system varies as s/he successively construes the replications of events. | i. Modulation corollary: The variation in a person's construction system is limited by the permeability of the constructs within whose ranges of convenience the variants lie. | j. Fragmentation corollary: A person may successively employ a variety of construction systems which are inferentially incompatible with each other. | k. Commonality corollary: To the extent that one person employs a construction of experience which is similar to that employed by another, his psychological processes are similar to those of another person. | l. Sociality corollary:To the extent that one person construes the construction processes of another, s/he may play a role in a social process involving the other person. | p. 46; p. 71-72 in 2002 edition

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