Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: \"after this, therefore because of this\") is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) that states \"Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X.\" It is often shortened to simply post hoc fallacy. It is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc (\"with this, therefore because of this\"), in which two things or events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown."@en }
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- Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc comment "Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: \"after this, therefore because of this\") is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) that states \"Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X.\" It is often shortened to simply post hoc fallacy. It is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc (\"with this, therefore because of this\"), in which two things or events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown.".