What does PHEPH stand for?

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc (Latin: after this, therefore because of this; type of logical fallacy)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

One of the most frequent errors results from post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.

Worse, among those falling for this post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy we must apparently include the arriving Obama administration.

To assume that any change is caused by the mandate falls into the trap of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Jones points out that efforts to explain economic development in cultural terms often rely on simplistic post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.

Well taught secondary school students are alive to the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Often these excurses are persuasive and enlightening, but sometimes Holmes falls prey to overzealous post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.

Post hoc is the shortened version of the Latin post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this, therefore because of this").

This comes dangerously close to the kind of mysterioso post hoc ergo propter hoc arguments which Hawes rightly denounces.