Back to Main Page 5. The ought-is fallacy occurs when you assume that the way you want things to be is the way they are. This is also called wishful thinking. Wishful thinking is believing what you want to be true no matter the evidence or without evidence at all or assuming something is not true, because you do not want it to be so.
Angels do exist.
It makes me feel better to think they are with me, so I'm justified in saying they are. I just know that Al Gore won the 2000 election, so George W. Bush is not my president. I know Henry has been missing for two years, but the thought of him being dead is unbearable. So, I know he is alive and we will find him alive. I know there is God.