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Fallacies of causality

Various fallacies in which causal relationships are misjudged:

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  • 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 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.

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