There is, of course, no necessary relationship between emotional health and logic. Some delightfully happy and psychologically well-balanced persons are utterly unable to track their way through syllogism….

The fixed delusional conclusion of the paranoid schizophrenic woman that “I am the Virgin Mary” is drawn from a paleological syllogism: “I am a virgin. Mary was a virgin. Therefore I am the Virgin Mary.”

Hers is a conclusion in search of evidence, drievn by her anguished search for meaning, by the lonely torment within.