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  "title": "Giving the closed explanation room to change",
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      "exact": "we should be chiefly concerned not so much to give it arguments as to give it air",
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  "body_markdown": "The imagined appeal asks the sufferer to entertain a less personally threatening explanation: strangers may have concerns of their own. It makes the recovery of curiosity and social participation part of the objection to an encompassing theory.\n\nThere is a limited resemblance to present cognitive treatment, but the paragraph should not be read as a clinical definition or treatment script. [NICE's guideline CG178](https://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG178/chapter/recommendations), published in 2014 with relevant recommendations dated 2009, specifies structured CBT which connects thoughts, feelings, actions and functioning, re-evaluates beliefs or reasoning, and can develop alternative coping strategies (§1.3.7.1). It recommends CBT for people with psychosis or schizophrenia (§1.4.4.1). This combines reflection on beliefs with practical help; it does not establish that argument is useless.\n\nNor is 'logical completeness' a general diagnostic mark of mental illness. The [NHS overview of schizophrenia](https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/overview/) includes confused thought and speech alongside delusions, hallucinations and difficulties in ordinary life. Chesterton's tightly organized cases illuminate one possible form of experience; they cannot stand for the whole range. His exuberant rebukes belong to the literary thought experiment, not to the cited guidance.",
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    "The comparison concerns selected treatment principles, not an efficacy claim or a claim of historical influence.",
    "The NICE full-page fetch returned 403; exact numbered recommendations were available in the official site's search-index excerpts.",
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        "question": "Does breadth of lived experience supply a better test of a worldview than its internal completeness, and how does William James complicate the identification of breadth with health?"
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