In what follows, I accept that Gorski is right to say that true delusion arises from a 'primary phenomenon' of experience whose 'specific difference'-its pathological character-cannot be further analyzed. Indeed, I suspect that, far from being a cop out, arriving at the understanding that the delusionality of primary delusion is indefinable is tantamount to genuinely appreciating just how fundamental a disturbance to the mind delusion represents. Whereas belief may take many forms-such as true or false, hasty, convinced, wavering, or long-standing-while remaining true to itself qua belief, delusionality challenges its very standing as belief. At its core, that is, it seems to me that delusion represents not merely an unusual 'take' on the world, but something that starts to make us question whether what we have here can genuinely be called a 'take' at all.
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