Biden Post Hoc

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  Are you not fit to run a marathon, but are fit enough to run 30 yards. Does that mean you are not fit to run at all? Your logic is post hoc ergo propter hoc; after this, therefore because of this. It is a logical fallacy. This is fallacious reasoning because, temporal succession does not establish a causal connection. There is no causality between being fit to run, and being fit to remain, or exist.

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