Delusion

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Example(s):
- a belief that the universe was made in six days.
- a belief that we have souls that outlive our bodies.
- a God Delusion, of a god.
- a Flat-Earth Delusion.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Hallucination, that someone is whispering in your ear, or an out-of-body experience.
See: Psychotic Depression, Confabulation, Dogma, Illusion, Psychiatric Illness, Psychosis, Schizophrenia.

References

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Delusion
- QUOTE: A delusion is an aggressively-held belief that is evidently false. It is commonly (but not exclusively) the result of a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia.
  Systematically shared beliefs between close social groups, such as religious systems, are commonly regarded as delusions amongst scientists, philosophers and psychologists, but are typically considered exempt by most clinical diagnostic criteria (e.g., the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The noted New Atheist, Richard Dawkins, wrote a book entitled The God Delusion, in which he asserted that the question of God's existence was tied to the question of special creation, and then argued that since special creation has largely been demonstrated to be false, belief in God is a delusion.

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion Retrieved:2017-9-21.
- A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.
  Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or psychiatric disease, although they are not tied to any particular disorder and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical and mental). However, they are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, paraphrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression.