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To: Mad Dawgg
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

From this follows this...ie cause and effect..(something the Dems NEVER get right)

68 posted on 11/04/2003 6:40:31 AM PST by drc43
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To: drc43
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

From this follows this...ie cause and effect..(something the Dems NEVER get right)

No. "Before this, therefore because of this." Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy.

Because one thing happens before another does not prove the first caused the second.

SD

75 posted on 11/04/2003 8:39:46 AM PST by SoothingDave
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