We want an answer, the single cause of the disease and the miraculous magic-bullet cure.
The foam debris hit was not the single cause of the Columbia accident, just as the failure of the joint seal that permitted O-ring erosion was not the single cause of Challenger.
The single cause identified is usually this last link in the chain of events that led to the accident.
The single cause chart is also discussed as a special case of the proposed mixture cumulative quantity chart.
The fallacy of the single cause of culture does not become less fallacious when it's set farther back in time.
Perhaps it is futile to look for the single cause without which the financial system would not have blown up in our faces.
In one chapter, he argues that you should give all your charitable donations to the single cause you deem most worthy.
So the rhetoric of the immediate aftermath consists of attempts to attribute blame in the simplest fashion, to find the single cause, offer the simple solution, and absolve ourselves.
The single cause was that debt grew faster than income.
What one would expect is that some auxiliary condition combines with the single cause to produce different effects; but if that is the case, then a single cause plus an auxiliary condition is not really just a single cause.
