Wishful thinking - As a logical fallacy

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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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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