posthockery

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noun

Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.

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Meanings

nounposthockery (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableUse of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.

    This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.

    1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62
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    Despite the dangers of posthockery implicit in the approach that has been taken here, it can cast some light on word-formation which other approaches would not be able to.

    1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation

Origin

From post hoc + -ery.

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