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posthockery

posthockery noun: use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.

Noun

posthockery (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of posthockery

From post hoc + -ery.

Questions about posthockery

What does posthockery mean?
Posthockery means use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
What part of speech is posthockery?
Posthockery is a noun.

Words near posthockery in the dictionary

  1. posthistorical
  2. posthistories
  3. posthistory
  4. posthitis
  5. posthoc
  6. posthockery
  7. posthodiernal
  8. postholder
  9. postholders
  10. posthole
  11. postholed

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