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Direct linkLaura D'Olimpio – Educational Theory, 2025
The popular trend of manifesting involves supposedly making something happen by imagining it and consciously thinking it will happen in order to will it into existence. In this paper Laura D'Olimpio explains why manifesting is a form of wishful thinking and argues that it is an epistemic vice. She describes how such wishful thinking generally, and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Epistemology, Beliefs, Trend Analysis
