The boy landed in the net, DOA. Do you know why?] So, while, no causal principle is foolproof, some are much less foolproof than others. The worst ones are implicated in the fallacies discussed below.

This is one of the more famous of the causal fallacies. This is the assumption that because two quantities increase or decrease in the same way as each other, or two properties show up together ...

MID: This fallacy does not consist simply in being ignorant of a subject or making a statement in ignorance of the evidence against it. It requires the person to use the fact that there is no evidence ...