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To: caww
"Wishful thinking, more as a cognitive bias than a logical fallacy, can also cause one to evaluate evidence very differently based on the desired outcome."

See confirmation bias, conspiracy theories, narcissism. And fallacies do gush from such individuals.

134 posted on 04/16/2023 11:33:28 AM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: familyop

The most useless individuals are the ones who post like a child: “everyone knows”.


135 posted on 04/16/2023 12:45:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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