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Abstract
Kelly proposed the metaphor of the personal scientist for psychological understanding of people. The theory of personal construct psychology was offered as an alternative to the mechanistic world view that dominates scientific endeavor. According to Kelly, people assume responsibility for meanings attributed to experience; events do not dictate meaning. Kellian theory may be regarded as essentially rooted in the world view of contextualism elaborated by Pepper (1942). Application of the contex-tualisl metaphor of the “historic event” suggests mechanistic influence nevertheless remains evident in personal construct psychology. People-as-scientists continue to be restrained by the bonds of mechanism