"posthockery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation:",
          "text": "Despite the dangers of posthockery implicit in the approach that has been taken here, it can cast some light on word-formation which other approaches would not be able to.",
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          "ref": "1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62:",
          "text": "This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.",
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        "Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive."
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        "(rare) Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive."
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