post hoc

• Expressão latina que significa "depois disso", usada em lógica e raciocínio para designar a falácia de assumir que, se um evento ocorreu após outro, então foi causado pelo primeiro. Também se refere ao erro de confundir sucessão temporal com relação causal.

A Latin phrase meaning 'after this,' used in logic and reasoning to refer to the fallacy of assuming that because one event followed another, it was caused by the first event.

1. C1formal

   A logical fallacy where one assumes that because one event occurred after another, it must have been caused by it.

   Falácia lógica

   • The argument that the rooster's crow causes the sun to rise is a classic post hoc fallacy.
   • He claimed the new policy caused the economic growth, but that is just post hoc reasoning.
   • Many superstitions are based on post hoc thinking.