POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC


Meaning of POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC in English

/pohst" hohk", erdd"goh prddohp"terdd hohk'/ ; Eng. /pohst" hok", err"goh prop"teuhr hok' er"goh/ , Latin.

after this, therefore because of it: a formula designating an error in logic that accepts as a cause something that merely occurred earlier in time.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .