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  2. Questionable cause - Wikipedia

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    The questionable cause—also known as causal fallacy, false cause, or non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin)—is a category of informal fallacies in which the cause or causes is/are incorrectly identified. In other words, it is a fallacy of reaching a conclusion that one thing caused another, simply because they are regularly ...

  3. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The consequence of the phenomenon is claimed to be its root cause. Ignoring a common cause; Fallacy of the single cause (causal oversimplification [60]) – it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.

  4. Post hoc ergo propter hoc - Wikipedia

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    A logical fallacy of the questionable cause variety, it is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'), in which two events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown. Post hoc is a logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later ...

  5. Category:Causal fallacies - Wikipedia

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    This category is for questionable cause fallacies, arguments where a cause is incorrectly identified. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.

  6. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    Reverse causation or reverse causality or wrong direction is an informal fallacy of questionable cause where cause and effect are reversed. The cause is said to be the effect and vice versa. Example 1 The faster that windmills are observed to rotate, the more wind is observed. Therefore, wind is caused by the rotation of windmills.

  7. Persian Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of December 2024, it has 1,022,876 articles, 1,358,500 registered users, and 94,540 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia ...

  8. Category:Persian encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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  9. Fallibilism - Wikipedia

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    The founder of critical rationalism: Karl Popper. In the mid-twentieth century, several important philosophers began to critique the foundations of logical positivism.In his work The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), Karl Popper, the founder of critical rationalism, argued that scientific knowledge grows from falsifying conjectures rather than any inductive principle and that ...