post hoc, ergo propter hoc

[ pohst hohk, er-goh prohp-ter hohk; English pohst hok, er-goh prop-ter hok ]

Latin.

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, external is an informal fallacy that states that because an event followed another, it was caused by it.

From BBC

In a possible case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, we learned a day later that Biden, for the second time during his presidency, was heading into a war zone.

From Salon

They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."

From Salon

With the use of Post hoc ergo propter hoc before you could snort that line, the president's son was blamed for it.

From Salon

In the meantime, at home the gaslighting has led to low ratings for the president, an ignorance of how gas prices work, a correlation between Biden's election and the beginning of the Ukrainian war that — under the classic logical fallacy "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" — leads some to claim that Biden caused the war in Ukraine.

From Salon