Comments on: Delusion http://rn3aoh.net/archive/2008/04/03/delusion Altering reality one world at a time Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: himself http://rn3aoh.net/archive/2008/04/03/delusion#comment-2893 himself Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:25:17 +0000 http://rn3aoh.net/?p=1070#comment-2893 <p>It's probably simplier than that; they might just have guessed that since being a victim of this delusion was the only mental illness that this patient had, it was safe to call him mentally healthy except for this delusion.</p> <p>In fact, this was the only way out: if, on the contrary, they had chosen to admit his illness, then no matter what they did they wouldn't have been able to destroy the logical inconsistence (they're supposed to cure the patient, after all, not to make him ill).</p> It’s probably simplier than that; they might just have guessed that since being a victim of this delusion was the only mental illness that this patient had, it was safe to call him mentally healthy except for this delusion.

In fact, this was the only way out: if, on the contrary, they had chosen to admit his illness, then no matter what they did they wouldn’t have been able to destroy the logical inconsistence (they’re supposed to cure the patient, after all, not to make him ill).

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