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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
A common logical fallacy indeed. A person sees that B follows A and leaps to the conclusion that A causes B and that to eliminate A is to eliminate B.
Correlation is not causation.
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