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The attribution of causal or synchronistic relationships between thoughts and actions and events which seemingly cannot be justified by reason and observation.

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magical thinking

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magical thinking

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客観的な根拠や観察で説明できないにもかかわらず、思考や行動と偶然に起こる出来事の間に因果関係や意味のある同時性を見出す思考様式

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Her insistence that wearing the red scarf would change the outcome was a clear case of magical thinking.

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彼女が赤いスカーフを着ければ結果が変わると主張したのは、理由や観察で正当化できない思考や行動と出来事の間に因果関係や共時性を帰属させる、明らかな魔術的思考だった。

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But, at first, by mere magical thinking […] Omens are gradually separated from ordinary probable signs […] as necessary infallible signs (or tendencies) if cunning can find them out, connected by some supernatural law with the unknown future that certainly awaits us, and as a kind of Magic.

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