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Sanity considered as a legal term denotes that an individual is of sound mind and therefore can bear legal responsibility for his or her actions. It is generally defined in terms of the absence of insanity. It is not a medical term, although the opinions of medical experts are often important in making a legal decision as to whether someone is sane or insane. It is also not the same concept as mental illness. One can be acting under profound mental illness and yet be sane, and one can also be ruled insane without an underlying mental illness. Insanity (sometimes, madness) is a semi-permanent severe disorder of the mind, typically as a result of mental illness. ...
The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ...
Sanity outside of legal definitions has been little explored by science and medicine, as the concentration has been on illness. Dr. P.S. Graven suggested the term "un-sane" to describe a condition that is not exactly insane, but not quite sane either.
A theory of sanity was proposed by Alfred Korzybski in his general semantics. Basically he believed that sanity was tied to the structural fit or lack of it between our reactions to the world and what is actually going on in the world. He expressed this notion in a map-territory analogy: "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." Given that science continually seeks to adjust its theories structurally to fit the facts, i.e., adjusts its maps to fit the territory, and thus advances more rapidly than any other field, he believed that the key to understanding sanity would be found in the study of the methods of science (and the study of structure as revealed by science). The adoption of a scientific outlook and attitude of continual adjustment by the individual toward his or her assumptions was the way, so he claimed. In other words, there were "factors of sanity to be found in the physico-mathematical methods of science." Alfred Korzybski Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland, and died on March 1, 1950) in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. He came from an aristocratic family which had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations, and he chose to train as an engineer. ...
General Semantics is a school of thought founded by Alfred Korzybski in about 1933 in response to his observations that most people had difficulty defining human and social discussions and problems and could almost never predictably resolve them into elements that were responsive to successful intervention or correction. ...
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Sanity is sometimes used as an engineering term to mean "internal consistency", as in the phrase "sanity check". This has led to pins on integrated circuits being labeled "LOS": "loss of sanity". This article is about the mental state. ...
In a criminal trial, the insanity defenses are possible defenses by excuse, via which defendants may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law, as they were mentally ill or mentally incompetent at the time of their allegedly criminal actions. ...
Catch 22 can refer to: A book by Joseph Heller, or the movie based on the book; see Catch-22. ...
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A sanity test or smoke test is a brief run-through of the main functionality of a computer program or other product. ...
Optical Microscope image of an integrated circuit showing defects in the aluminium layer deposition. ...
Sanity was also the name of a famous Amiga demo group. Sanity was an all-german demo group, born in march of 1990 by Panther (code) and Hawk (code), who quickly took in Vindicator (music) and Cruiser (gfx) as well. ...
Amiga demos are demos created for the Commodore Amiga home computer. ...
Sanity is the name of an Australian music store chain. |
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