"My horoscope said I would meet a 'tall, dark stranger' yesterday. Sure enough, I found a big, black, stray dog yesterday afternoon. I took him home to keep." Which fallacy is represented in this example?
A) Appeal to ignorance
B) Sweeping generalization
C) Hasty generalization
D) Post hoc

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The example demonstrates the post hoc fallacy, which assumes that because one event followed another, the first event caused the second. In this case, finding the dog after reading the horoscope is incorrectly assumed to be a fulfillment of the horoscope's prediction.

"My Horoscope Said I Would Meet a 'Tall, Dark Stranger