Psychological fact
The article is devoted to the important issue concerning methodology. The special topicality of this work is that many authors do not recognize it as a methodological problem at all. In the popular psychological dictionary, fact in general is defined as the result of observation or experiment, not allowing equivocation. This contradicts the widely known situations where the fact is evaluated and interpreted in different ways. Such an approach does not allow solving the problem constructively. The approach to the problem that has developed in science philosophy is examined. Detailed research of Aleksandr Nikiforov, which suggested fact as something that has a structure, is described. This is a promising approach, but it is of lack for psychology. It is stated that a level-wise approach in psychology in order to interpret a fact is needed. Level-wise approach can be implemented, if the problem is addressed in the context of the methodological theory of scientific research. There is a prospect of further research aimed at finding the synthesis of level-wise structure and structural analysis.