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TY - GEN ID - cogprints839 UR - http://cogprints.org/839/ A1 - Snyder, Douglas M. Y1 - 1991/// N2 - An alternative view to the traditionally held view that schizophrenia is characterised by severely disordered cognition is presented. It is possible that apparently self-contradictory expressions of schizophrenics are well-formed communicative expressions of highly ordered cognitive systems. Building on the premise that behavior is in general communicative, and using Godel�s Incompleteness Theorem from logic as a model, it is shown that the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia (namely apparently self-contradictory thought, delusions and hallucinations) may indicate truths that cannot be derived within highly ordered cognitive systems. KW - Godel's Incompleteness Theorem KW - schizophrenia KW - logic KW - cognitive systems KW - communication KW - delusions KW - hallucinations KW - consistency KW - incompleteness TI - An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition SP - 211 AV - public EP - 217 ER -