Causality
Fallacies of causality
Various fallacies in which causal relationships are misjudged:
In this section
- The false cause fallacy is a way of jumping to conclusions about a causal relationship between two events or phenomen which are based on the joint occurrence of events or phenomena
- The fallacy of monocausality is the erroneous assumption that a phenomenon has only one (relevant) cause.
- The cause-and-effect swap is assuming the wrong direction of a causal relationship.
- The teleological fallacy is the assumption that there is a meaning or a purpose in something, where it is yet to be proven that this exists.
See also
More information
- Correlation does not imply causation on Wikipedia
- Non causa pro causa on FallacyFiles