This argument-"John's headache went away after he drank a cup of coffee. The coffee cured his headache."-illustrates…
A) The post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy
B) The scientific method
C) Deductive reasoning
D) The tu quoque fallacy

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The argument commits the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, which assumes that because one event followed another, the first event caused the second. In this case, it assumes the coffee cured the headache simply because the headache went away after drinking coffee, without considering other possible explanations.

This Argument-"John's Headache Went Away After He Drank a Cup