Sentence examples for intentional delusion from inspiring English sources
This came after I had spent time assisting him under the seemingly intentional delusion that I was going to be a part of the program.
In What Starts Wars: Intentional Delusions Stratton presented nations, themselves collections of people, as triggering war from several delusions.
The distinction between circumscribed and elaborated delusions is relevant to the level of integration between delusions and a person's other intentional states and to the extent to which the person's endorsement of the delusion is manifested in verbal reports and observable behavior.
Berrios reaches the extraordinary conclusions that delusions are not even intentional states, but utterances without meaning, "empty speech acts".
More significant intentional or unintentional psychological dissociation, labeled by psychologists as "self-delusion" or "self-deception," allows people to persuade themselves to believe (or accept) what they rationally "know" is not so (Fingarette 1969; Audi 1988).
Schwitzgebel's position has recently challenged by philosophers who argue that delusions play a belief-role in explaining and predicting intentional action (see Bortolotti 2012; Bayne and Hattiangadi 2013).
A delusion is circumscribed if it does not lead to the formation of other intentional states whose content is significantly related to the content of the delusion, nor does it have pervasive effects on the behavior of the person reporting the delusion.
In a similar vein to their explanation of thought disorder in terms of identifying with one's own thoughts or being alienated from them, they suggest (194) that delusions are constituted by a higher-order stance towards lower- order intentional states.
Delusion piled upon delusion.
