It sounds like a classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. |
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Most noise is created on take-off but, once the aircraft is airborne, the throttle-setting will be reduced, ergo exhaust noise too reduces. |
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I still don't know, because I didn't achieve anything while at high school and ergo was not invited to the awards ceremony. |
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One of these days the oil will run out and there will be no internal combustion engines, ergo, no more private cars and the problem of child obesity will be much reduced. |
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The Board also found that the expense claimed was part of a medical testing process for the grievor and, ergo, should be reimbursed. |
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Responsibility for the selection and deployment of the ergo rested with crowned heads, prominent leaders, religious figures and women. |
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As such it's designed to work solely from the viewers' perspective, ergo pointing out that it's more about audience manipulation than it is about good storytelling. |
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Garden spade, forward-turned steps, tempered steel blade, reinforcing steel collar, ergo poly grip. |
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It is emblematically connected with Descartes' famous pronouncement cogito ergo sum, she says, and has become something of a social ideology. |
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There has always been a facile criticism about language policy in Canada that has assumed that its purpose was to make everyone bilingual: everyone is not bilingual, the argument goes, ergo the policy is a failure. |
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Again this leads us to trade too much and overestimate our ability, whereas sticking money in an index fund would save us time and money. Illusion of explanation or post hoc ergo propter hoc. |
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In addition, the classical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc cannot be ruled out: evolutionary psychologists arguing from how we behave, to guess why we behave as we do. And anyway, so what? |
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Greece has mud volcanoes, ergo Greece has oil. |
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The term suggested the logical fallacy post hoc, ergo propter hoc the belief that simply arranging things in chronological order proved a causal sequence. |
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I interpreted it as the government saying to Canadians that we are prepared to share in some of the cost and some of the hurt that people are going through, ergo, the removal of the vote subsidy. |
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At least since Kant, we philosophers and philosophasters have all professed ourselves dissatisfied with the Cartesian cogito ergo sum. |
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Ergo these figures indicate the majority of visitors to the city were the residents of the hotels and guest houses. |
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The third Ergo division is Ergo IT products, which provides a wide range of computer consumables and network-related products. |
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Ergo, we should call him Scottie in da club because he is figuratively beaming himself up by smoking a blunt in da club. |
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Ergo, Netanyahu's bellicosity was posturing, intended to put pressure on Washington. |
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Walmart cashes about 18 percent of food stamps in the U.S. Ergo, any cut would be bad news for the company. |
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Ergo if the finest minds at Breitbart can't find him, Dunham's story must be fabricated. |
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The Va-Va-Voom range from Ergo, available exclusively at OFIS, is an ideal solution to work station needs in contemporary offices. |
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We welcome the opportunity to add the pension management activities of PTE Ergo Hestia to the life insurance business of AEGON Poland. |
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Ergo, it does not behove Liverpool FC to rebuild Suarez's persona with a donation that is aimed to appeal to the heartstrings. |
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