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"Delirium in the literal sense of the word is normally classified as a psychological condition. The philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers was the first to define the three principal criteria for a belief to be considered delirious or delusional, in his book General Psychopathology: “first of all, certainty (held with absolute conviction) then incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary) and finally impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre, or patently untrue).” These criteria are still in use in diagnosis in modern …