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**Kamendoriks** · 01-25-2008, 09:13 PM

Originally posted by Patroklos
How is that psychotic? Hell, if it is, EVERYONE is psychotic.

And everyone is delusional, btw. Maybe everyone you know. In most circles, however, it's standard practice to formulate a hypothesis based on facts, then weigh all the evidence for and against that hypothesis and affirm or reject it accordingly. Formulating a hypothesis based on what you want or feel to be true, and then using it to measure the truth or falsehood of the physical evidence concerning it, is almost the definition of psychosis.

Anyway, I'm off for the weekend. It's my grandma's 90th birthday and we're going up to visit.

01-25-2008, 09:13 PM	#33
Kamendoriks Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 627 Senior Member	Originally posted by Patroklos How is that psychotic? Hell, if it is, EVERYONE is psychotic. And everyone is delusional, btw. Maybe everyone you know. In most circles, however, it's standard practice to formulate a hypothesis based on facts, then weigh all the evidence for and against that hypothesis and affirm or reject it accordingly. Formulating a hypothesis based on what you want or feel to be true, and then using it to measure the truth or falsehood of the physical evidence concerning it, is almost the definition of psychosis. Anyway, I'm off for the weekend. It's my grandma's 90th birthday and we're going up to visit.
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