Everything is word. However, that incontrovertible fact is in cacophonic concert with the error of the story that the world exists. Thus the word spoken by anything newly the holy God, is that we, humans and other life and even inanimate things are each in our different ways players of roles in it as if on a stage, a stage of archetype-mythological storytelling characters.

Fallacies, self-deceptions and mental disorders, whether mild and useful or severely debilitating, are the collective constitution and institution of the ego, i.e., one's executive function, one's I, that by which one is in action telling stories, and exists.

It is odd that in the introduction Burton defines self-deceptions as ways to minimize threats to the ego yet not as ways to maximize its supports. Is maximizing the scaffolding more the business of logical fallacy? The book is in five sections, each with an introduction, which should be summarized and criticized here.