G. Bachelard, La formation de l'esprit scientifique [The formation of the scientific mind, 1938.

C. Essex and W. E. Smythe, Between Numbers and Notions: A Critique of Psychological Measurement, Theory & Psychology, vol.9, issue.6, pp.739-767, 1999.
DOI : 10.1177/0959354399096002

K. R. Popper, The logic of scientific discovery, Basic Books, 1959.

S. S. Stevens, On the Theory of Scales of Measurement, Science, vol.103, issue.2684, pp.667-680, 1946.
DOI : 10.1126/science.103.2684.677

S. Vautier, The operationalization of general hypotheses versus the discovery of empirical laws in Psychology, Philosophia Scientae, issue.15-2
DOI : 10.4000/philosophiascientiae.656
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00640487