Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia - Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence or rationality. Studies have consistently shown that, holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes. See positive outcome bias. Prominent examples of wishful thinking include: Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock ...

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Wishful thinking - As a logical fallacy

Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia II - Wishful thinking - As a logical fallacy In addition to being a cognitive bias and a poor way of making decisions, wishful thinking can also be a specific logical fallacy in an argument when it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P is true/false, therefore P is true/false."[1] For example: The teacher gave us a difficult exam! We shouldn't have to be subjected ...

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Appeal to consequences - General form

Wishful thinking: Superior, Inferior or Equal

Buddhist Quotes: Superior, Inferior or Equal

Do not form views in the world through either knowledge, virtuous conduct, or religious observances; likewise, avoid thinking of oneself as being either superior, inferior, or equal to others.

The wise let go of the “self” and being free of attachments they depend not on knowledge. Nor do they dispute opinions or settle into any view.

For those who have no wishes for either extremes of becoming or non-becoming, here or in another existence, there is no settling into the views held by others.

Nor do they form the least notion in regard to views seen, heard, or thought out. How could one influence those wise ones who do not grasp at any views.

- from the Sutta-nipata

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Wishful thinking: Poetry For and About Indigos - Freezer Burn

Freezer Burn

She had the clearest blue eyes

Liquid and always wet

I found a sea-bed in her eyes

And enough tears to fill it

She was one with the salt-sea

Her skin smoothed by sand and storm

And she swam within her eyes

And they kept her wet and warm

And the sun never touched her

Pale child of the tide

The water held her warm hand

And she dripped and dropped and dived

The waters held her warm hands

And she splished and splashed and cried

Please let me drown while I can still feel it

She said I want to swim with the cold fish

Please let me drown while I can still feel it

She said I want to fry like the cold fish

I longed to feel what she felt

Yet I could not dive into her eyes

I was tanned and burned and rough

The sun kept me cold and dry

But I needed to know what she knew

So I plunged into her apple-sea

And she pushed me out and said

That she would come to me

Please let me drown while I can still feel it

She said I am going to swim with the cold fish

Please let me drown while I can still feel it

She said I am going to fry like the cold fish

Her eyes had frozen to a crisp

I saw her think then retake her place

She surfaced and drifted ashore

The sun came out and burned her pale face

Her eyes said that she had not felt it

She had frozen long before she fell

And I held her in my cold arms

And I wished that she would melt

And without her rain to wet us

We stood and began to dry

She grabbed ahold of my cold hand

And she tanned and burned and fried

I tightly held her cold hands

And she blistered and cracked and smiled

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Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia - Faith

The word faith has various uses; its central meaning is similar to "belief", "trust" or "confidence", but unlike these terms, "faith" tends to imply a transpersonal rather than interpersonal relationship – with God or a higher power. The object of faith can be a person (or even an inanimate object or state of affairs) or a proposition (or body of propositions, such as a religious credo). In each case, however, the faithful subject's faith is in an aspect of the object that cannot be rationally proven or objectively known. ...

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Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia - Appeal to emotion

Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy wherein the arguer (who is using this fallacy) takes advantage of emotion to prove his or her argument. This is a type of red herring. It encompasses several logical fallacies, including: Appeal to consequences Appeal to fear Appeal to flattery Appeal to pity Appeal to ridicule Appeal to spite Wishful thinking Appeal to emotion - Related fallacies. Many other fallacies often, but not nece ...

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Appeal to emotion - Related fallacies

Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia - Fellowship of Reason

The Fellowship of Reason is a moral community based in Atlanta. Its founder, Martin L. Cowen III, calls himself a "non-theist", and says that although he does not believe in God or other things supernatural, he nonetheless thinks that churches serve a useful function by providing "moral communities." Wishing to have a moral community that is not theistic (although not officially opposed to theism) he founded that organization. Fell ...

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Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia - Universal metaphysics

Universals (used as a noun) are either properties, relations, or types. However, classes are not usually considered to be universals; however, some prominent philosophers, such as John Bigelow, do think that classes are universals. It is worth noting that all four items are generally considered abstract, nonphysical entities. They are at least so considered by Platonic realists; there are others who use the terminology of properties, relations, etc., but who do not wish to be realists. Part of the difficulty, inde ...

Wishful thinking: Encyclopedia II - The supernatural in monotheistic religions - Views on the supernatural within monotheism

The supernatural in monotheistic religions - Supernaturalization and naturalization in the Hebrew Bible. In the Hebrew Bible plagues and other misfortunes are described as signs of God's anger or vengeance, while prosperity and victory are described as signs of God's approval and love. Believers assert that these descriptions are accurate in describing the existence of a personal God who interacts with the universe in supe ...

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