Causal fallacies

informal fallacy

prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior

social phenomenon that responsabilizes the victim of the damage suffered

mistaken belief that more frequent chance events will lead to less frequent chance events, or vice versa, to balance out

threat of force to make a conclusion accepted

cognitive bias that assumes that actions will have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor

illogical conclusions based on correlated events, or belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them

logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect

Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing individuals, particularly but not exclusively women and girls, who violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. It may also be used in reference to gay men, who may face disapproval for promiscuous sexual behaviors. Gender-based violence primarily affecting women can be a result of slut-shaming. The term is commonly used to reclaim the word slut and empower women to have agency over their own sexuality.

tendency and mental shortcut of preferring an item with more available information

latin phrase

argument

fallacy of leading the evidence to a preconceived conclusion

mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor

type of reasoning fallacy

problem where a piece of information appears to come from multiple independent sources, but in reality comes from only one source

category of informal fallacies

formal fallacy of concluding, on the basis of an unlikely outcome of a random process, that the process is likely to have occurred many times before

chain of logical connections that form a loop

concept of probability theory and gambling

argumentative fallacy

cognitive bias where actors tend to attribute the causes of their behavior to stimuli inherent in the situation, while observers tend to attribute behavior to stable dispositions of the actor