propter hoc
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc, external is an informal fallacy that states that because an event followed another, it was caused by it.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
"A Wet and Warm Spring, Then 200,000 Dead Saigas"? Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
McManus argues that Sanders will push Mrs. Clinton to the left, though that sounds to us like post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2015
Asserting that De Soto’s visit caused the subsequent collapse of the Caddo and Coosa may be only the old logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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