Post Hoc

1. Post Hoc First period

2. Definition • A fallacy in which one event is said to be the cause of a later event simply because it occurred earlier.

3. Example

4. The graph in the earlier slide is an example of post hoc because it is saying that because of the decrease in prites that Co2 is rising Warming, Global. "Are Pirates Behind Global Warming?" Climate Skeptic. Web. 26 Apr. 2011. <http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/10/are-pirates-beh.html>.

5. Example • Page 208 Act 3 • Giles: it is my third wife, Sir; I never had no wife that be so taken with books, and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see, but it were no witch I blamed her for. I have broke charity with her Is she reads books and it is not the bible then she must be a witch

6. Page 211 act 3 • Parris: such a Christian that will not come to church but once a month! • Dan forth: not come to church • Proctor; I-I have no love for Mr. Parris but I have great love for god! • Cheever: I think it be evidence, john. I am an offical of the court, I cannot keep it • Proctor I-I have once or twice plowed on Sunday…. Since he plowed on Sunday and don’t come to church he must be trying to over throw the court and be a witch