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- n. the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
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Collected Words - List 2
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gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
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Logical Fallacies
I know it's been done before, but I just couldn't resist having my own list--I'll be borrowing from Amberley's list of Fallacies (and others).
petitio principii, begging the question, post hoc ergo pro..., logical fallacy, ignoratio elenchi, non sequitur, amphiboly, fallacy of accent, amphibology, hypostatization, equivocation, reification and 12 more...
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Hapax Legomenon
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hapax legomenon, schadenfreude, malapropism, ipso facto, carte blanche, tautology, pleonasm, reductio ad absurdum, tabula rasa, post hoc ergo pro..., post hoc, cum hoc ergo prop...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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Hunson's List-O-Rama
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dynamite, post hoc ergo pro..., hasty, innoculous, vicarious, proliferation, pathos, logos, ethos, waffle, epistolary, phagocyte and 21 more...
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latin is fun
ab ovo, ignis fatuus, cum laude, ad astra, anno domini, veni, vidi, vici, deus ex machina, cui bono, carpe diem, ad referendum, amicus humani gen..., aqua et igni inte... and 40 more...
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Latin
ad astra per aspera, reductio ad absurdum, peccavi, ad hominem, mea culpa, sapere aude, ante bellum, ad nauseum, tabula rasa, modus operandi, non sequitur, sui generis and 14 more...
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Phrases
post hoc ergo pro..., contingent upon, cognizant of, par amour, voilà!, marches to a diff..., off-the-record, as easy as spittin', country bumpkin, of ill repute, in dispute, old world coot and 4 more...
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fallacies
argumentum ad ant..., argumentum ad bac..., argumentum ad cru..., argumentum ad ign..., argumentum ad laz..., argumentum ad log..., argumentum ad mis..., argumentum ad nov..., argumentum ad num..., argumentum ad pop..., argumentum ad ver..., bifurcation and 15 more...
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Fabulous Foreign Phrases
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politicslovr's Words
de facto, post hoc ergo pro..., awesome, sated, lackadaisical, roflcopter, incroyable
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milkywayt's list
AWESOME!
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The Dailies
Words that should be used once a day, even if a situation that can invoke the use of the word needs to be created.
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dgstone This means, "After it, therefore because of it."
President Josiah Bartlet: "Do you know when we lost Texas, CJ?
CJ Cregg: "When you learned to speak Latin?"
President Josiah Bartlet:"Go figure."
- West Wing Mar 13, 2008
kewpid Also employed on an episode of The West Wing.
“After it, therefore because of it. It means one thing follows the other, therefore it was caused by the other, but it's not always true. In fact, it's hardly ever true. We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?”
— Josiah Bartlet
Nov 1, 2007
politicslovr my favorite latin phrase.
literally: "after this, therefore this caused this." used in logic to describe a fallacy of causation. Jan 10, 2007