A population density map of WashingtonSubmitted by Pecners t3_zuajkb in Washington
JustNilt t1_j1kcrcy wrote
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a pretty shit take on anything. The vast majority of people don't base their personalities around politicians. They support politicians who support things they also support.
andthedevilissix t1_j1np9ui wrote
> The vast majority of people don't base their personalities around politicians.
Yea, there's definitely not a cult of personality around Trump. You're right and very smart.
JustNilt t1_j1ntl36 wrote
Yeah but that's not the vast majority of people, now is it?
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1kcsiz wrote
>Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: 'after this, therefore because of this') is an informal fallacy that states: "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is often shortened simply to post hoc fallacy. A logical fallacy of the questionable cause variety, it is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'), in which two events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown. Post hoc is a logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later event because it occurred earlier.
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