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post hoc

NOUN
  1. the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation

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  • And yet we should be cautious in history of assuming _post hoc propter hoc_. The Age of the Reformation
  • Not in it exactly, unless you go in for _post hoc, propter hoc_. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Tartari illum quem equitant vna die, illum non ascendunt in tribus vel in quatuor diebus post hoc. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Accordingly, not every antecedent of an event is its Cause: to assume that it is so, is the familiar fallacy of arguing '_post hoc ergo propter hoc_.' Logic Deductive and Inductive
  • Have you ever heard of the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc? BALANCE OF POWER
  • Of course CBE can claim that any before/after study is merely a post hoc propter argument, but the brief provides the econometric calculations which demonstrated statistical significance. The Volokh Conspiracy » A reliable book about 1877
  • Never was there a clearer case of _post hoc, propter hoc_; but even the officials at the War Office were suspicious in the matter, and their attitude towards Gordon went near to precipitate the very catastrophe they wanted to avoid. The Life of Gordon, Volume II
  • The data are collected through Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and a post hoc interview questionnaire.
  • Si male pugnant occidentur ab eis: Si autem bene, ipsos cum promissis adulationibus tenent: et etiam vt ab ipsis non fugiant promittunt eis quod facient eos dominos magnos et post hoc quando securi esse possunt de ipsis, vt non redeant, faciunt eos infoelicissimos seruos. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Boswell tells us that although the sage himself never smoked, yet he had a high opinion of the practice as a sedative influence; and Hawkins heard him say on one occasion that insanity had grown more frequent since smoking had gone out of fashion, which shows that even Johnson could fall a victim to the _post hoc propter hoc_ fallacy. The Social History of Smoking
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