[Home]History of Logical fallacy/Post hoc

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Revision 3 . . (edit) October 9, 2001 8:40 am by Justfred
Revision 2 . . October 7, 2001 11:47 pm by Vicki Rosenzweig [added example]
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Post hoc reasoning is related to [magical thinking]?, connecting two things that have no actual or logical connection.
A non-controversial example is "I just washed my car; of course it's going to rain." Rain isn't caused by car-washing, but the car owner connects the two events. The person down the street didn't wash her car, and it's raining on her too.

Post hoc reasoning is related to [magical thinking]?, connecting two things that have no actual or logical connection, as well as [/Correlation does not imply causation]?.

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