In the case of colon cancer, however, this kind of magical thinking is life threatening.
Magical thinking believes that great leaders and even great companies are somehow magically born not made.
But frankly, you can show the reliance on magical thinking with just a few quick word changes.
Despite all the scientific advances of the past two centuries, magical thinking and the cultural inheritance of Christianity remain endemic.
This article is a perfect example of this kind of magical thinking.
It is magical thinking to imagine that somehow we will be spared the plain and foreseeable consequences of our failure of duty.
When the Rabbi reminds the young man that his riddle relies on an impossible premise he is warning against an over-reliance on magical thinking.
When he tells the young man that the whole riddle relies on an impossible situation, he is warning him against the danger of magical thinking.
But since riddles and thought experiments rely on imagining impossible realities, by choosing a riddle in the first place, the Rabbi is paradoxically introducing the young man to the value of magical thinking as well.
This is not pre-scientific magical thinking.
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No magical thinking, just common sense.
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Homeopathy is simply magical thinking.
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This is a magical-thinking approach to politics and policy, and journalism itself.
No amount of magical climate thinking can turn this one upside-down.
Paradoxical thinkers hold apparent contradictions in tension by moving among magical, modern, and postmodern thinking as the situation requires while still being able to act decisively.
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