The paper provides a response to the publication by V. I. Slobodchikov and E. I. Isaev in the sixth issue of "Voprosy psychologii", 1998. The notions matter used by the authors - "a paradigmatic shift", "an anthropological paradigm", "an anthropological principle" - are analyzed. The difficulty to understand the relation between the anthropological principle and other paradigmatic purposes of development psychology based on the word "embraces" is stated. The anthropological principle is brought before to be looked at as the reporting form in psychology adding to the explanations coming from the famous theory of development.