Sheldon comments, "The fact that I'm home safe does not prove that [his mother's prayers] worked; that logic is post hoc, ergo propter hoc," using a Latin phrase which means "After this, therefore because of this." This is called the theory of coincidental correlation or the "post hoc" fallacy, which holds that it's incorrect to assume that if one event follows another, the first event caused the second event to occur.
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