Flaws in Reasoning & Arguments

Wishful Thinking & Rationalization: It seems unlikely that, for anyone alive today, the world is exactly the way they wish it would be in every detail. Because there is discordance between what is the case and what we wish the case would be, we all engage at some point in time in wishful thinking: the desire that our situation be something other than it really is.

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• Flaws in Reasoning
• Skepticism & Critical Thinking