The questionable cause – also known as causal fallacy, false cause, or non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin) – is a category of informal fallacies in which a cause is incorrectly identified.
Fallacies of questionable cause include:
- Circular cause and consequence
- Correlation implies causation (cum hoc, ergo propter hoc)
- Fallacy of the single cause
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Regression fallacy
- Spurious relationship
- Texas sharpshooter fallacy
- Third-cause fallacy
- Wrong direction
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Informal fallacies
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- Absence paradox
- Begging the question
- Blind men and an elephant
- Cherry picking
- Complex question
- False analogy
- Fallacy of distribution (Composition
- Division)
- Furtive fallacy
- Hasty generalization
- I'm entitled to my opinion
- Loaded question
- McNamara fallacy
- Name calling
- Nirvana fallacy
- Rationalization (making excuses)
- Red herring fallacy
- Special pleading
- Slothful induction
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| Correlative-based fallacies |
- False dilemma
- Denying the correlative
- Suppressed correlative
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| Deductive fallacies |
- Accident
- Converse accident
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| Inductive fallacies |
- Sampling bias
- Conjunction fallacy
- False analogy
- Hasty generalization
- Misleading vividness
- Overwhelming exception
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| Vagueness and ambiguity |
- Amphibology
- Continuum fallacy
- False precision
- Slippery slope
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| Equivocation |
- Equivocation
- False attribution
- Fallacy of quoting out of context
- Loki's Wager
- No true Scotsman
- Reification
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| Questionable cause |
- Animistic
- Appeal to consequences
- Argumentum ad baculum
- Correlation does not imply causation (Cum hoc)
- Gambler's fallacy and its inverse
- Post hoc
- Prescience
- Regression
- Single cause
- Slippery slope
- Texas sharpshooter
- The Great Magnet
- Wrong direction
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- List of fallacies
- Other types of fallacy
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