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post hoc

Concluding that A caused B only because B came after A.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this, therefore because of this") takes the fact that one event followed another as enough to show that the first caused the second.

Examples

  • "I wore my lucky socks and we won, so the socks helped us win."

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