106. The Circular Reasoning Trap in Psychiatric Diagnoses

Why descriptions, by definition, cannot be diagnostic.

Aug 01, 2023

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During my sophomore year at Middlebury College, I took notoriously tricky course called Introduction to Modern Logic. An early requirement for philosophy majors (one of the many declarative detours I flirted with before landing on the equally useless History degree), it focused on good reasoning and the technical breakdown of arguments.

A basic example:

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