… In a case of pathological doubt, the subject is beset by doubt but can offer no grounds for …
case of pathological belief, the subject is beset by belief but can offer no grounds for the belief. …

… Understanding the nature of belief is of particular significance when trying to explain how
delusions … in non-pathological belief formation to fully characterise the nature of the pathology. …

… It is no longer problematic that the person adopts an unusual hypothesis as a belief, as the
hypothesis explains the anomalous data as well as it can. But it is problematic that the person …

… which they claim can explain the presence of delusional beliefs. So on their … pathologies
of belief raises the question, which I posed initially, namely: What counts as a pathology of belief…

… those models that explain delusions as a breakdown of normal belief formation (… to be ‘pathological
beliefs’, although existing cognitive approaches differ in their willingness to explain …

… -pathological belief formation. In this chapter, we describe a tentative five-stage account of
belief … Importantly, however, this account does not yet explain the content of specific delusions …

… These pathological beliefs, known as delusions, are … What kind of belief are a delusions?
Some proposals have been … a delusion as a “false belief based on incorrect inference about …

… explaining delusions is to consider beliefs as existing along a continuum (Strauss 1969;
Johns and van Os, 2001). This approach considers delusions (beliefs diagnosed as pathological…

… pathologies after all? Or does it rather mean that we should drop the assumption that social
pathologies … Thirdly, at the secondorder level (beliefs about the origin of the first-order beliefs)…

… of the nature of beliefs systems and worldviews, of the nature of memory, of how one idea
leads to another, and of how belief systems solidify, are all useful in explaining the basic …