Sentence examples for hoc from high-quality English sources.

• “Its ad hoc.

• Quid est hoc?

• Some ad-hoc projects have already contributed to environmental improvements.

• Like websites where students rate professors, ad hoc ratings of police will be fraught with problems.

• It seems clearly true that the scientific community’s judgment about whether a hypothesis is ad hoc can change.

• Setting up a European Monetary Fund is superior to the option of either calling in the IMF or muddling through on the basis of ad hoc interventions.

• His ad hoc style of governing, which regularly exposes lack of experience and knowledge of international issues, risks even greater confusion and incoherence.

• The term suggested the logical fallacy post hoc, ergo propter hoc—the belief that simply arranging things in chronological order proved a causal sequence.

Use hoc in a sentence.

• There are a number of fallacies associated with causation, the most frequently discussed is post hoc ergo propter hoc, (after this, therefore because of this).

• Equivocation, post hoc ergo propter hoc, false dilemma, non sequitor and hasty generalization are, for example, patterns of argument that are inherently mistaken.

• Ad hoc hypotheses, for Popper, suffer from a lack of independent testability and thus reduce (or at least fail to increase) the testability of the theories they modify (cf. above).

• Ad-hoc regional security networks are taking shape by key partners in Asia and Europe," it notes, describing a world increasingly shaped not by international institutions but transactional alliances.

• "A string of half-formed, recycled and disjointed pranks you suspect wouldn't have survived the quality-control process on the original, effortfully connected post hoc by largely uninspired scripted scenes.

• Isn’t the Kellogg-Briand Pact just a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc—an exercise in feel-good diplomacy that happened to find confirmation many years later in a state of global affairs made possible by other means?

• In its final report on Heathrow last year, the Airports Commission was clear that an extra runway at the UK's biggest flight centre would be an opportunity to right some of the environmental wrongs that have developed through ad hoc expansion over the years.

• In addition to several standing and ad hoc committees, the work of the council is facilitated by the Military Staff Committee, Sanctions Committees for each of the states under sanctions, Peacekeeping Forces Committees, and an International Tribunals Committee.

hoc sentence examples

• Tim Beshara, the manager of policy and strategy at the Wilderness Society, said since the Council of Australian Governments committee on environment was abolished by the former prime minister Tony Abbott, the meetings of environment ministers had become “ad hoc”.

• The statement urged European Union nations to “abandon the current approach of adopting ad hoc agreements” for dealing with migrant rescues and “establish a clear, safe and structured disembarkation mechanism” that shares responsibility equally among member states.

• Thus Popper’s conception of ad hocness added to the ordinary English meaning a further requirement—in the case of an ad hoc hypothesis that was simply introduced to explain a single phenomenon, the ad hoc hypothesis has no testable consequences other than that phenomenon.

• This concept of ad hocness arguably makes sense of Einstein’s critique of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis as ‘ad hoc’ as a supplementary hypothesis to the aether theory, and Pauli’s postulation of the neutrino as an ad hoc rescue of classical quantum mechanics (Leplin 1975, 1982; for further discussion see Grünbaum 1976).