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Madmen and the faculty of reasoning
John Locke Madmen do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some of the ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths. . .For, by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.

 - John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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