posthockery
nounEtymology From post hoc + -ery.
1
Rare Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
- 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.1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation:
- This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62: