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- ▪ after this, therefore resulting from it: used to indicate that a causal relationship has erroneously been assumed from a merely sequential one
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Informal fallacy
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is an informal fallacy which one commits when one reasons, "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is a fallacy in which an event is presumed to have been caused by a closely preceding event merely on the grounds of temporal succession. This type of reasoning is fallacious because mere temporal succession does not establish a causal ... Wikipedia
