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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Technical term for fallacy
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Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 17:34:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 28 17:34:33 1983
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The technical term for the logical fallacy that Liz Allen is being
accused of is "post hoc, ergo propter hoc", or "after this, therefore because
of this." The paradigm often given is the fallacious conclusion that the
crowing of the rooster causes the sun to rise.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew