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Original Question
Hey Is it a ''Post hoc ergo propter hoc'' fallacy when someone states for example: ''CIA has ties with Amazon, therefore Amazon Echo is spying on people'', or is this another fallacy?

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While I agree completely with Bo's analysis, this fallacy lends itself to further fleshing out.
First, I would characterize this fallacy as follows:

" If propositions
x and y cannot both be true, then x and y MUST each be false. "

Two possible contingencies exist (will use examples to illustrate each).

1. X = All dogs are reptiles
Y= All dogs are insects
Propositions X and Y cannot both be true, and each proposition separately is false.
(If this were the only possibility, no fallacy would exist.)

2. X= All dogs are mammals
Y= All dogs are reptiles
Again, Propositions X &Y cannot both be true, however, Propositions X IS true, while Y is not.
Thus, this contingency illustrates the fallacy of the original statement.

In the real-world example cited by the OP, there are of course numerous religions, however,
this principle remains intact, and the atheist s proposition is fallacious.




The format for that fallacy is "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." In this case, we aren't really talking about causes and events; we are talking about drawing an unsubstantiated conclusion from a premise. I would say that this is more of a Non Sequitur or even simply an unsubstantiated claim if we don't accept that the CIA has ties with Amazon.

Logical Form:

Claim A is made (''CIA has ties with Amazon")
Evidence is presented for claim A (none is here, but if we can assume we agree that the CIA has ties with Amazon...)
Therefore, claim C is true ("Amazon Echo is spying on people'') -> Say what? We took a huge leap that would require many supporting facts. We simply skipped those steps.

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