• Source: Fallacy of the single cause

The fallacy of the single cause, also known as complex cause, causal oversimplification, causal reductionism, root cause fallacy, and reduction fallacy, 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.
Fallacy of the single cause can be logically reduced to: "X caused Y; therefore, X was the only cause of Y" (although A,B,C...etc. also contributed to Y.)
Causal oversimplification is a specific kind of false dilemma where conjoint possibilities are ignored. In other words, the possible causes are assumed to be "A xor B xor C" when "A and B and C" or "A and B and not C" (etc.) are not taken into consideration; i.e. the "or" is not exclusive.




See also


Affirming a disjunct – Formal fallacy
Essentialism – View that entities have identifying attributes
Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part
Formal fallacy, also known as non sequitur (logic) – Faulty deductive reasoning due to a logical flaw
Jumping to conclusions – Psychological term
Overdetermination – When a single effect has multiple sufficient causes
Proximate and ultimate causation – Event that is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result
Spurious relationship – Apparent, but false, correlation between causally-independent variables




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Dilema palsu
• Ras manusia
• Kritik terhadap Israel
• Fallacy of the single cause
• Questionable cause
• Faulty generalization
• List of fallacies
• Affirming the consequent
• Animistic fallacy
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc
• False dilemma
• Conjunction fallacy
• Regression fallacy