But while Bush was paying tribute to the movement for change that inspired Perot's independent candidacy, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was denouncing the Texas billionaire as "a crazy man" and a "paranoid person who has delusions" because of the unsubstantiated dirty-tricks charges Perot has leveled against the Bush campaign.
Russia even stripped thousands of émigrés of their citizenship perhaps because of a delusion that they, or anyone else, could influence the outcome of the vote.
As Mr. Pinto noted, the Amazon has the name it does because of a delusion: the first Europeans to visit thought they saw one-breasted woman warriors, like those in Greek mythology, on horseback along the bank of the river.
Correction: Because of a reporting delusion, the above article misstated the nature of the videotape in question.
Do these sound like the delusions of a madman?
The notion that buildings get rid of rats is worse than a delusion because it becomes an excuse for not exterminating rats.
Referential delusions are the most common symptom of schizophrenia and offer an opportunity to examine the neural correlates of delusions because they occur in discrete episodes that can be studied in the scanner.
Ignorance may be thought of as the "tap root" of all delusions, because anger and craving arise in our minds only because we are ignorant of the true nature of the things that cause us to experience these negative emotions.
Broadening the data pool has no chance of dissolving these delusions, because people generally deal with huge volumes of information in the same way that they deal with small ones: by sifting and discarding, then connecting dots to make a picture out of what remains.
After all, every criminal lawyer knows -- although this is hard to put to paper -- that a significant percentage of clients, at least for some period of time, communicate some level of falsity to their lawyer, either deliberately or because of shame, self-delusion, distraction or any number of reasons.
