as its applies to a particular sub-class of delusions: the delusions of patients suffering from schizophrenia. We shall, on the other hand, concede that certainty and incorribility of belief do indeed characterize another species of delusions, the delusions of delirious patients. Moreover, we shall admit that schizophrenic patients regularly claim that they are certain about their delusions or that they "know" some things to be the case that normal people would regard as delusional. We shall interpret these pervasive claims, however, as expressions on the part of schizophrenics that are motivated by a determination to believe something indubitably precisely because they both believe it and doubt it while they seek to eradicate their doubt. More simply put, their assertions of absolute conviction do not depict their actual experience but rather a desired one, an experience they seek to make real precisely by insisting that it is now real." /> The phenomenology of schizophrenic delusions - Schwartz Michael Alan; Schwartz Michael A.; Wiggins Osborne P | sdvig press