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'''Wishful thinking''' is both a [[cognitive bias]]<ref>[http://sidewiseinsights.blogspot.com/2011/01/credit-to-his-race-final-installment-of.html SideWise Thinking]</ref> and a [[logical fallacy]].<ref>[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/wishthnk.html Logical Fallacy: Wishful Thinking]</ref>  It consists of believing something, or believing something to be more likely than it in fact is, because one wants it to be true.

'''Wishful thinking''' is both a [[cognitive bias]]<ref>[http://sidewiseinsights.blogspot.com/2011/01/credit-to-his-race-final-installment-of.html SideWise Thinking]</ref> and a [[logical fallacy]].<ref>[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/wishthnk.html Logical Fallacy: Wishful Thinking]</ref>  It consists of believing something, or believing something to be more likely than it in fact is, because one wants it to be true.

As a logical fallacy, it it similar to the [[appeal to emotion]], except that the appeal is to one's own emotion rather than only to the emotions of the audience.  The fallacy makes a desire for the conclusion to be a premise; that is, it takes the following form:

As a logical fallacy, it it similar to the [[appeal to emotion]], except that the appeal is [[self-deception|to one's own emotion]] rather than only to the emotions of the audience.  The fallacy makes a desire for the conclusion to be a premise; that is, it takes the following form:

*I want ''P'' to be true.

*I want ''P'' to be true.

*Therefore, ''P''.

*Therefore, ''P''.