Meaning of posthockery | Babel Free

Definitions

Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.”

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