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Post aut propter
“After it or because of it.”
Scholarly Latin phrase
Translation
What does “Post aut propter” mean?
Post aut propter translates as “After it or because of it.”
Used when it is not clear whether one event merely followed another or was caused by it.
Origin
The story behind it
A scholarly phrase for an unestablished link between cause and effect, related to the fallacy ‘post hoc ergo propter hoc’.
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