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Prominent examples of wishful thinking include:

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 Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression].

* Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression].

* President [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion].

* President [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion].

While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen 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] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]].

While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen 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] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]].

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There is sometimes a tendency for [[mortals]] to want a solution to their world’s problems, a program, an agenda, a [[revelation]], a [[religion]], some sort of [[state]], some apparatus that will address these problems and solve their [[dilemma]].  This is [[wishful thinking]], and it may lead to [[truth]]ful [[thinking]] for in truth it is in and upon and through your willingness to engage yourself in this [[divine]] friendship we offer sharing it with others with respect for who they are even as you discover more of who you are; it is this [[process]], this [[action]] where [[our Father]] becomes active, and his action is that influence that is [[Change|changing]] your world, gradually eroding the grip of [[fear]] yielding to the [[relaxation]] within that [[state]] otherwise sought but now found in [[love]]. Yes, it is the state of love that we would establish, and how else can love [[grow]], assume its place filling those voids in your [[heart]], in your lives than in and through [[friendship]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Friendship-2001-04-04]

There is sometimes a tendency for [[mortals]] to want a solution to their world’s problems, a program, an agenda, a [[revelation]], a [[religion]], some sort of [[state]], some apparatus that will address these problems and solve their [[dilemma]].  This is [[wishful thinking]], and it may lead to [[truth]]ful [[thinking]] for in truth it is in and upon and through your willingness to engage yourself in this [[divine]] friendship we offer sharing it with others with respect for who they are even as you discover more of who you are; it is this [[process]], this [[action]] where [[our Father]] becomes active, and his action is that influence that is [[Change|changing]] your world, gradually eroding the grip of [[fear]] yielding to the [[relaxation]] within that [[state]] otherwise sought but now found in [[love]]. Yes, it is the state of love that we would establish, and how else can love [[grow]], assume its place filling those voids in your [[heart]], in your lives than in and through [[friendship]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Friendship-2001-04-04]

== External links ==

== External links ==

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory]

* [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory]

* [http://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking]

* [https://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking]

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