[WVNan]

Facts, facts, nothing but the facts. Strange things, facts. Back in 300 CE it was a well known fact that human beings could not fly from one country to another. It was also a firm fact that there was no self-propelled vehicle in which to ride from place to place. Wonder how airplanes and cars were thought of? I guess some “magical thinking” person was thinking outside the “facts.”

[T Minus Four]

Yeah, imagination and innovation are the same as magical thinking. (rolls eyes)

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[delacoert]

You seem to be confused about the difference between conventional wisdom and the truth.

Conventional wisdom is often mistaken for fact, and is also used deliberately to mislead by those who know that the "conventional wisdom" is wrong.

[John Locke]

My favorite example is the French savants who refused to believe in meteorites. “There are no stones in the sky. Therefore, stones cannot fall out of the sky.” Superb logic.

[Elsie]

I guess some “magical thinking” person was thinking outside the “facts.”

Nope; they were derived at by taking the KNOWN facts that had been observed in the world and putting them together to perform a specfic job.

No one waited around for them to evolve on their own.