Ignoring a Common Cause A fallacy is an argument or belief based on erroneous reasoning. Ignoring a common cause is one type of fallacy. This fallacy happens when someone believes that one thing caused another, without considering another factor that could have caused both things. For example,...
This explanation is exhaustive in the cases above; however, if we look at how this fallacy was analyzed in the dialectical tradition, we find examples that can be hardly accounted for in terms of hasty generalization: (c) (1) Chimaeras do not exist. Therefore, it is false that a ...