Wishful thinking

I have no crystal ball and am not endowed with second sight I cannot predict the future. I comment here only on what I 

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There is basically one goal for the partnership, with possible side benefits. The goal is to save money. When all the dust settles, that is it. However, there are associated benefits, the best of which is to minimize or even do away with adversarial relationships. It may be wishful thinking to believe that these will be completely eliminated. A related, but very important, benefit is to build trust between the parties. This is necessary to achieve the goal. 

Whether benefits are really tangible or merely wishful thinking... 

By far the most parsimonious, but nonstatistical, explanation for the observed pattern is that the titrations differ in selectivity, especially as regards basic and acidic impurities. Because of this, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the true values probably lie near the lowest value for each batch, and everything in excess of this is due to interference from impurities. A more selective method should be applied, e.g., polarimetry or ion chromatography. Parsimony" is a scientific principle make as few assumptions as possible to explain an observation it is in the realm of wishful thinking and fringe science that combinations of improbable and implausible factors are routinely taken for granted. 

Yes. Thank you. But there isn t, not really. Except about the Chantry. I put a hand out to where he sits at the other end of the sofa. Mark, do you think it s possible Or is it just wishful think-... 

These continuation trials tell a very different story from that told by relapse-prevention trials. They show that there is little difference between antidepressant and placebo even when the clinical trial is extended over a longer period of time. Across the eight continuation trials that have been published, 79 per cent of patients on placebo and 93 per cent of patients on active medication remained well throughout the treatment period. In these long-term studies, placebo treatment was 95 per cent as effective as drug treatment. The authors of a meta-analysis of these trials concluded that the widely held - and probably erroneous - belief that the placebo response in depression is short-lived appears to be based largely on intuition and perhaps wishful thinking .17... 

Kirschner, J.W. (2002). The Gaia Hypothesis fact, theory and wishful thinking. Climate Change, 52, 391 08... 

However, the fast development of hardware performance in the last decade and the current university training seems to lead many IT experts and decision makers in the chemical industry to the wishful thinking that any problem can be solved by optimization and sheer calculation power. 

Radosevich, S.C. (1993). The six deadly sins of trace element analysis A case of wishful thinking in science. In Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue Chemical Analysis in Anthropology, ed. Sandford, M.K., Gordon and Breach, Langhorne, pp. 269-332. 

Is there a basis for the desired selectivity of action — is the project purged of wishful thinking ... 

Although his race made Percy Julian an anomaly in the chemical industry in 1936 (see Bechtel, 1989), his decision to leave academe for industry was not unusual for white chemists of his time. As has been shown, the chemical industry was in the midst of a great expansion. In a 1967 interview in the New York Times, Julian was candid about being black and a scientist in the U.S. He is quoted as having said We were taught a pretty little lie - excel and the whole world lies open before you. I obeyed the injunction and found it to be wishful thinking (Borman, 1993,... 

This is based on wishful thinking instead of facts. Ta and rosh are not ancient Egyptian words, and the French name Tarot is actu-... 

It is just at this point that self-deception goes beyond weakness of the warrant, for the person who is self-deceived must have a reason for his weakness of the warrant. and he must have played a part in bringing it about. Weakness of the warrant always has a causet but in the case of self-deception weakness of the warrant is self-induced. It is no part of the analysis of weakness of the warrant or weakness of the will that the falling off from the agent s standards is motivated (though no doubt it often is), but this is integral to the analysis of self-deception. For this reason it is instructive to consider another phenomenon that is in some ways like self-deception wishful thinking. 

A minimal account of wishful thinking makes it a case of believing something because one wishes it were true. This is not irrational in itself, for we are not in general responsible for the causes of our thoughts. But wishful thinking is often irrational, for example if we know why we have the belief and that we would not have it if it were not for the wish. 

Is a belief deliberately begotten in the way described necessarily irrational Dearly it is if one continues to think the evidence against the belief is better than the evidence in its favour, for then it is a case of weakness of the warrant. But if one has forgotten the evidence that at the start made one reject the presently entertained belief, or the new evidence now seems good enough to offset the old, the new state of mind is not irrational. When wishful thinking succeeds, one might say, there is no moment at which the thinker must be irrational.4... 

Not all wishful thinking is self-deception, since the latter but not the former requires intervention by the agent. Nevertheless they are alike... 

In Paradoxes of irrationality , in R. A. Wollheim and J. Hopkins (eds.). Philosophical Essays on Freud (1982), Cambridge Cambridge University Press. I assumed that in wishful thinking the wish produced the belief without providing any evidence in favour of the belief. In such a case the belief is, of course, irrational. 

These observations merely hint at the nature of the distance that may separate self-deception and wishful thinking. Not only is there the fact that self-deception requires the agent to do something with the aim of changing his own views, while wishful thinking does not, but there is also a difference in how the content of the affective element is related to the belief it produces. In the case of the wishful thinker, what he comes to believe must be just what he wishes were the case. But while the self-deceiver may be motivated by a desire to believe what he wishes were the case there are many other possibilities. Indeed, it is hard to say what the relation must be between the motive someone has who deceives himself and the specific alteration in belief he works in himself. Of course the relation is not accidental it is not self-deception simply to do something intentionally with the consequence that one is deceived, for then a person would be self-deceived if he read and believed a false report in a newspaper. The self-deceiver must intend the deception. ... 

The defenders of such a policy, of course, promote the argument that the market has to improve its (eco) toxicological competence. Wishful thinking Even KEMI has only a handful of trained experts to perform adequate risk assessments. Delegating responsibility for implementing a poorly defined PP down to individual consumers represents a cowardly and unacceptable behavior of the Swedish state, especially in a situation when KEMI employees themselves lack clear guidelines on how to interpret and implement the PP. 

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