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To: bassmaner
OK, say it with me, Logic 101 students:

High schools and universities do not offer those courses any more. They used to be mandatory.

You can't push a Communist agenda if students have been taught to see the lies and false arguments being used to sway their opinion.

10 posted on 02/24/2014 7:47:41 AM PST by OldMissileer
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To: OldMissileer

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Translation: “After this, therefore because of this” ( Latin )

The Post Hoc Fallacy is committed whenever one reasons to a causal conclusion based solely on the supposed cause preceding its “effect”. Of course, it is a necessary condition of causation that the cause precede the effect, but it is not a sufficient condition. Thus, post hoc evidence may suggest the hypothesis of a causal relationship, which then requires further testing, but it is never sufficient evidence on its own.

IE:Roosters crow just before the sun rises. Therefore, roosters crowing cause the sun to rise.


17 posted on 02/24/2014 9:37:36 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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