Sentence examples for false cause from inspiring English sources

(5) The fallacy of false cause (non causa pro causa) mislocates the cause of one phenomenon in another that is only seemingly related.

Among the unidentified views, the third in Bradwardine's survey tries to fit the paradox into the Aristotelian fallacy of "false cause".

This large class of fallacies includes accident, converse accident, false cause, petitio principii, complex question, ignoratio elenchi, ad baculum, ad hominem abusive, ad hominem circumstantial, ad ignorantiam, ad misericordiam, ad populum, and ad verecundiam.

Among the informal paralogisms Walton includes: ad hominem, ad populum, ad misericordiam, ad ignorantiam, ad verecundiam, slippery slope, false cause, straw man, argument from consequences, faulty analogy, composition and division.

However, the Logick does consider sophisms and introduces "false cause" as an alternative name for causa non pro causa which here, as in the Port-Royal Logic, is understood as a fallacy associated with empirical causation.

This is not the same fallacy mentioned by Aristotle in the Rhetoric (II 24) which is more akin to a fallacy of empirical causation and is better called false cause (see Woods and Hansen 2001).

She reminded Greenfield that parents of autistic children have had to suffer a whole catalogue of false causes, and begged her to "stop talking about autism".

Plaintiffs must prove the agencies induced clients to rely on misrepresentations and omissions of material fact they knew were false, causing the plaintiff injury.

As a consequence of these results, positive and negative false causes have been described.

The "slippery slope" fallacy involves drawing up a false cause-and-effect relationship as evidence: "If I have to be home at 9 o'clock, next I won't be able to eat hamburgers in restaurants either".

A third false-cause fallacy occurs in premise (2), that "wealth buys longevity".