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A false belief about yourself or the situation you are in.
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised."
He is under the delusion that I am going to cheat him.
I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.
This was not optimism, it was delusion. 

Tags: 3.24, belief, no

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