NO REPRESENTATION by George Kelly

Suppose one is dealing with the construct of good versus bad. Such a construct is not a representation of all things that are good, and an implicit exclusion of all that are bad. Nor is it a representation of all that are bad. It is not even a representation of all things that can be called either good or bad. The construct of itself is the kind of contrast one perceives and not in any way a representation of objects ... But while constructs do not represent or symbolize events they do enable us to cope with events, which is a statement of quite a different order.

[George Kelly 1970]