Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Technical term for fallacy Message-ID: <526@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 17:34:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxr.526 Posted: Thu Jul 28 17:34:33 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Jul-83 06:08:34 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 6 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