Generalizing from the rationales underlying the scoring of the three types of Rorschach autisms included in the TRAUT system, it was shown that all perceptual autisms can be subsumed under a single, all-encompassing principle based upon a reductio ad absurdum argument. Therefore, in a way, autisms can be viewed as “cheating,” i.e., getting around the explicit and implicit rules governing the evaluation of Rorschach percepts.
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