... and it is generally agreed to result from a process in which attention to B is reduced because it is found to predict nothing in addition to what is predicted by A (Pearce and Hall 1980). In the test developed by Jones et al.
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Von Domarus (1944) identified these two patients' underlying problem as a failure of Aristotelian syllogistic reasoning. Thus, the syllogism All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal' is true.
The first comprehensive account of delusions, the forms they take clinically and the mysteries behind what causes them.
English language translation (c) 2012 by Kempton Mooney. Delusions is the story of Thomas Weber, a recent graduate who does not know what to do with his life.