ergo

Let’s give the last word, plus one of mine, to the famous phrase of French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum ridens” — “I think, therefore I am laughing.”

This has been a quality year — ergo, the following list, presented in random order, shoehorns 18 series into 10 more or less themed slots.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, external is an informal fallacy that states that because an event followed another, it was caused by it.

There is someone who writes to me almost weekly about media’s failures — and I assume, ergo, my failure — and he won’t be mollified.

They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."