Based on the takes one to know one theory, would you have to be insane to tell that someone else is insane?

Answer 1

Based on that theory yes, but then no-one would ever turely know that anyone was insane because only insane people would have known the state existed in the first place.

Answer 2

Yes, but it is paradoxical because if you are insane then your observations and conclusions are inherently unreliable. If you had multiple personality disorder, for example, not only would your judgment of someone else's insanity be unreliable, but so might your judgment of whether they are, in fact, someone else.

Also, that theory implies that you have to be sane to know if someone else is sane. If a sane person know who the other sane people are, doesn't that imply that they also know who the insane people are (i.e., the ones who aren't sane)?

Personally I think in/sanity is more like a continuum than an binary opposition.

Answer 3

Or at least witnessed the effects of insanity from someone you once knew as sane and now isn't.

But, short answer- yes.

Answer 4

good theory but not all theories are right so you'll never know about the first one because it's just a theory right?P.S. based on the theory, yes

Answer 5

what tartan said but taking in mind that if some insane is classifying some one who is sane or not-- would anything they say be relivant since they are insane?

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

What Taraman said.

Answer 8

Who would self judge in this way.