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To: Durus
I would get after you for constant use of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, but I would guess that you are doing it intentionally.

Oooh, Latin! Please demonstrate where I have drawn a conclusion in order to prove a conclusion. To me, it's the folks who say, "Cops are bad; therefore the cop is guilty" rather than looking at the facts that are reasonably established to propose that the older man is guilty of a crime, not the victim. Copitude is just a part of his personality. It doesn't matter to me why he did it; but that he did it, and that texting is not a reasonable excuse for shooting someone, if, in fact, testimony and evidence prove to a court that he did it.

483 posted on 01/16/2014 5:23:34 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Albion Wilde
"Please demonstrate where I have drawn a conclusion in order to prove a conclusion."

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is Latin for "after this, therefore because of this" meaning that you are drawing a conclusion that does not logically follow from events at hand. "It doesn't matter to me why he did it; but that he did it, and that texting is not a reasonable excuse for shooting someone..."

See, right there, classic "after this, therefore because of this". You might as well say he was shot because he put his child in day care or that he bought popcorn.

Out of curiosity were you one of those people here on FR that was calling for Zimmerman's head before all the facts were in?

497 posted on 01/16/2014 6:50:33 AM PST by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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