Two experiments were carried out to investigate the difficulty of making the contra-positive inference from conditional sentences of the form, βif P then Q.β This inference, that not-P follows from not-Q, requires the transformation of the information presented in the conditional sentence. It is sug
Reasoning about a rule
β Scribed by Wason, P. C.
- Book ID
- 115482659
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Year
- 1968
- Weight
- 644 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-555X
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