Crime rates have increased exponentially because of the unusually high temperatures of summer. The flawed logic in this statement exemplifies A) post hoc B) slippery slope C) false dichotomy D) hasty generalization
English · High School · Sun Jan 24 2021
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The flawed logic in the statement "Crime rates have increased exponentially because of the unusually high temperatures of summer," exemplifies A) post hoc. The term "post hoc" is short for "post hoc ergo propter hoc," which is Latin for "after this, therefore because of this." This logical fallacy occurs when one assumes that just because one event follows another, the first event caused the second. In this case, the assumption is that the high temperatures caused the increase in crime rates, without providing any evidence to establish a causal relationship between the two events.