#false cause

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: before, therefore because of (Grunkle Stan: Ever since that monster Gideon rolled into town, I've had nothing but trouble.)

Stan assumes that because his trouble started after Gideon arrived, that the trouble must be due to Gideon. One event happened first, therefore it is the cause of the other. This is also a form of False Cause because the correlation does not equal causation.

https://www.facebook.com/DefeatTheDemocrats/posts/pfbid02kygeVcYzu8VGWPs3mFpCZJTucnaU8jHa6Zo9fsndrvFtsjNwGnp9v2cQNuxe93Bhl The Claim “The same people who were glad Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline are now whining about gas prices… you are the problem!” There’s something undeniably satisfying about this kind of statement. It draws a straight line between cause and effect, assigns…

False Cause:  the fallacy committed when an argument mistakenly attempt to establish a causal connection. 

Causal connections are difficult to establish; the nature of causality is an active area of inquiry in the philosophy of science.

Logical Fallacy Series: “The False Cause and False Effect”

Logical Fallacy Series: “The False Cause and False Effect” By: Dion McNeil The false cause is a logical fallacy that sometimes some people invoke to explain something or to be intentionally misleading. Now of course there are other reasons but for the purpose of explaining this logical fallacy better we’ll just focus on those two lines of reasoning. To explain this logical fallacy better we’ll…