Is psychology hard or impossible? Reflections on the conditional
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We discuss the various explanations that have been offered to account for subjects’ behaviour in Wason’s famous selection task, and find them wanting. We argue that what is lacking is a good understanding of a subject’s semantics for the key expressions involved, and an understanding of how this semantics is affected by the demands the task puts upon the subject’s cognitive system.
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