Cogito, ergo sum --- This tendancy is also expressed with a maxim I was aware of, without having it in such a clear way:

'Post hoc, ergo propter hoc', meaning "after this, therefore because of this'

A similar but much more popular maxim is 'cogito, ergo sum", meaning 'I think, therefore I exist'.

At face value, it is yet another expression of link between cause and effect, but it is not actually a fallacy. It is an attempt to define the essence of the human existence.

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu