BA> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Bob Ackley:

 MG>>>>>> Ergo no one in Fido believes a word out of OR
Sauer or Bob Klahn.
 MG>>>>>> :)

 RN>>>>> Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

 MG>>>> Like my knowledge of French, my Latin is nearly nonexistent. :)
 MG>>>> I do, however, recognize that it *IS* Latin. :)

 BA>>> 'After the fact therefore before the fact' is an
 BA>>> approximate translation.

 BK>>  You forgot to mention, it's identifying a logical fallacy.

 BA> Not necessarily.  Pointing out that something exists/is
 BA> true after some event doesn't mean that it was not also in
 BA> existence/true before that same event.  And I was merely

 Post hoc means after this. Propter hoc means because of this.

 Post hoc after this, propter hoc therefore because of this.

 It's a statement of a logical fallacy.

 BA> providing a literal (approximate) translation of the Latin,
 BA> not commenting on anything else in the thread.


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