(August 23, 2015 at 2:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: You can be mentally ill and not delusional and delusional but not mentally ill. Society sets the standard.
Which means that it is a relativistic concept, where one could be mentally ill in one society, but not mentally ill in another. Which means that it is not about what the person is, but rather about the standards of a particular society.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
