Causal Oversimplification
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By Steve Spalding August 26th, 2010
Under: Digital University
Summary: The fallacy of the single cause, also known as joint effect or causal oversimplification, is a logical fallacy of causation 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.
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