Re: This shall be Salman Rushdie´s words

[sonjaartemisia]

No: HPFGUIDX 156601


> wynnleaf
> I'm afraid, Neri, that you've set up a very common fallacy.  One of
> Rushdie's comments was basically, "[if] Snape is a villian, [then]
> Dumbledore's killed."  (snip) But that being true, does not make the 
converse
> true.
To consider
> that to be true is to fall for a very common fallacy, the Latin name
> of which I can't recall at the moment, but the basic construction is:
>   If A then B, does NOT mean the same as If B then A.

Sonja now:
I believe that is the logical fallacy of "post hoc, ergo propter hoc."

Unfortunately, I can't conclusively argue that the "opinion" to which 
Jo was referring was that Severus Snape is essentially still a good 
guy, though I would very much like to do so!

Sonja, with Latin assistance from my dear husband, a rather sharp high 
school English teacher.