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To: Salamander
"I detest logical fallacies of any type."

That particular one is called "post hoc ergo propter hoc". It is based on the assumption that correlation between variables is due to causation. In addition it is also a Fallacy of Single Cause.

96 posted on 09/21/2016 1:29:58 PM PDT by shibumi (Dancin in the Dark with Tramps in the Park, I'm the Fleetfoot VooDoo Man)
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To: shibumi

Indeed.

And such things *should* be beneath FReepers.

(Yet there are Nazi references here, aplenty)


98 posted on 09/21/2016 1:33:48 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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