Kurt Danziger published a work in 1977 arguing that psychological concepts are constructed through measurement practices.

Caveats

• The sole evidence for a 1977 publication is LLM Background Knowledge (the lowest-authority source), which provides no verifiable title, journal name, or page numbers — making the date claim non-falsifiable and unconfirmable.
• All high-authority sources (Cambridge University Press, Frontiers in Psychology, Princeton University Press) anchor Danziger's measurement-constructs-concepts thesis to his 1990 book, not to any 1977 work.
• The proponent's reasoning relies on affirming the consequent: the existence of a well-documented 1990 thesis does not logically confirm that the same argument appeared in a 1977 publication.