Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? A critical re-evaluation of abstract deontic versions of the Wason selection task

Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 33-60

  Fiddick, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203641606     Document Type: Chapter

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