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Experiments in getting to the point.

I’m gonna say Post hoc ergo propter hoc 4 times fast.

April 5, 2008 at 8:28 am · Filed under Constructive Criticism, Miscellanea

Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Now you.

5 Comments »

  Andrew wrote @ April 5, 2008 at 10:56 am

I prefer this one:

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

  Marc wrote @ April 5, 2008 at 11:21 am

You post, then I comment.
Your post caused my comment.

  Abraham Piper wrote @ April 5, 2008 at 11:54 am

It’d be kinda funny if it worked the other way.

You comment, then I post.

Propter hoc ergo post hoc blogging. There might be some money in that.

  John Murphy wrote @ April 6, 2008 at 6:21 am

That’s a great clip. I’ve probably been guilty of reasoning like that once, or twice…or maybe more.

  Chelsea wrote @ April 6, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Someone I know (an atheist) uses this logical fallacy a lot. If only he’d had my Rhetoric 100 teacher…

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