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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
magic thinking en · NOUN
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of magical thinking
For the most part Communists were victims of magic thinking, according to which an impure source contaminates the information that comes from it.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 452: