Expertlatin
- What is the Latin word for wishful thinking?
- What is the Latin phrase best wishes?
- Where did wishful thinking come from?
- What is the fallacy of wishful thinking?
What is the Latin word for wishful thinking?
An excellent medieval Latin word, which captures the sense of "wishful thinking" almost exactly, is velleitas, from which we get the (somewhat uncommon) English word "velleity."
What is the Latin phrase best wishes?
Bonam fortunam (tibi exopto)! — (I wish you) good fortune!
Where did wishful thinking come from?
The concept of wishful seeing was first introduced by the New Look approach to psychology. The New Look approach was popularized in the 1950s through the work of Jerome Bruner and Cecile Goodman.
What is the fallacy of wishful thinking?
The ought-is fallacy occurs when you assume that the way you want things to be is the way they are. This is also called wishful thinking. Wishful thinking is believing what you want to be true no matter the evidence or without evidence at all, or assuming something is not true, because you do not want it to be so.
