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Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

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This looks like it really wants to be post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this, therefore because of this"), but no matter how hard I try I can't get "ergo propter" out of "rge ptporca".

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There are 8 fallacies:

  1. Dicto simpliciter
  2. Hasty Generalization
  3. Post Hoc (Ergo Propter Hoc)
  4. Contradictory Premises
  5. Ad Misericordiam
  6. False Analogy
  7. Poisoning the well
  8. Hypothesis contrary to fact
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a form of the false causality fallacy, which states that because one event happened after another, the first event caused the second. It ignores other possible explanations for the outcome.

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This is an example of a logical fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc, which infers causation based solely on sequence of events. In reality, the rooster crowing and the sun rising are simply correlated events that occur independently of each other.

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