posthockery
English
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editposthockery (uncountable)
- (rare) Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
- 1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation:
- 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.
- 1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience[1], page 62:
- This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.