magical thinking
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magical thinking
noun magic thinking
- The attribution of causal or synchronistic relationships between actions and events which seemingly cannot be justified by reason and observation. But, at first, by mere magical thinking […] Omens are gradually separated from ordinary probable signs […] as necessary infallible signs (or tendencies) if cunning can find them out, connected by some supernatural law with the unknown future that certainly awaits us, and as a kind of Magic.
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| Español | pensamiento mágico |
|---|---|
| Français | pensée magique |
| Deutsch | magisches Denken |
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title = {magical thinking},
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