In this case it would be quite clear that the fever was caused by illness and not the other way around.

Example of cause and effect logical fallacy. The causal fallacy is any logical breakdown when identifying a cause. That is BS Mom. This example of common cause fallacy is effected by a fallacy of division.

Sorry I am not moving. Every time I wash my car it rains. In other cases the fallacy is not always evident.

One causal fallacy is the false cause or non causa pro causa not the-cause for a cause fallacy which is when you conclude about a cause without enough evidence to do so. Therefore my going to sleep causes the sun to set. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Reversing Cause and Effect Wrong Direction The Bibles account of the Genesis flood borrows from earlier myths.

X apparently causes Y. For the most part the threat that you will ruin your eyesight is an old wives. For example a problem child might be the cause of the parents being short tempered or the short temper of the parents might be the cause of the child being problematic.

This fallacy falsely assumes that one event causes another. Ie In sum the fallacious claim is that since city residents vocabularies increase in proportion to city library size a particular individual will thereby increase personal vocabulary in accordance with the increase in personal books owned. The fallacy involved here is presuming that a collective is in fact a living breathing thinking and acting entity.

You can think of the causal fallacy as a parent category for several different fallacies about unproven causes. The false effect of watching TV too closely is going blind. Over 270 cultures have flood myths and they are surprisingly similar in many details so the entire story is just a myth Actually its the other way around.