posthockery

English

Etymology

post hoc +‎ -ery

Noun

posthockery (uncountable)

1. (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.