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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 ...
The third-cause fallacy (also known as ignoring a common cause [8] or questionable cause [8]) is a logical fallacy in which a spurious relationship is confused for causation. It asserts that X causes Y when in reality, both X and Y are caused by Z.
Questionable cause [ edit ] Its primary basis is the confusion of association with causation, either by inappropriately deducing (or rejecting) causation or a broader failure to properly investigate the cause of an observed effect.
The fallacy of the single cause, also known as complex cause, causal oversimplification, [1] causal reductionism, root cause fallacy, and reduction fallacy, [2] is an informal fallacy of questionable cause that occurs when it is assumed that there is a single, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.
This category is for questionable cause fallacies, arguments where a cause is incorrectly identified. Subcategories.
The “Lost Cause” was a political project waged by white ... there is apparently no eyewitness account—and possibly as few as three questionable second-hand accounts—from before the ...
During Tuesday’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a pattern emerged in which the vice president sometimes stretched the truth and sought to reframe her political ...
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 ...