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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In or of the form of an argument in which one event is asserted to be the cause of a later event simply by virtue of having happened earlier.
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- adjective
after the fact - adverb
after the fact - noun An instance of the
post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, in whichtemporal order is confused withcausation .
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- noun the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin, short for post hoc, ergō propter hoc, after this, therefore because of this : post, after + hoc, neuter of hic, this.]
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From Latin post hoc
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From Latin post hoc ergo propter hoc
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