What is the greek name for this argument fallacy?

When someone explains away an inevitable event with some wacky reasoning that has nothing to do with the real cause of said event.


For example, lets say i find out when next solar eclipse is, then i tell some pre-civilized tribe somewhere that i am a God and my special incantation will cause an eclipse.





Well obviously the eclpise wouldve happened anyway, but isn't there some greek name for this kind of faulty reasoning. --you know kind of like the opposite of "post hoc" --or something like that?

What is the greek name for this argument fallacy?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) which assumes or asserts that if one event happens after another, then the first must be the cause of the second. It is often shortened to simply post hoc and is also sometimes referred to as false cause, multicollinearity, or coincidental correlation.
Reply:Pragmatic Fallacy


In modern-day english, it is also called fallacy of begging the question.


It is the use of propositions by an arguer to convince, persuade, or refute another arguer in a context of dialogue. Certain parts of these semantics, which is concerned between the relationship of falsehood of propositions, and with logical reasoning, which is concerned in diagramming the structure of the sequences of arguments.
Reply:Non sequitur.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitu...
Reply:non sequitur-- "it does not follow" is the term I think you are looking for, but it's Latin.