Imperiul sofismelor care ne domină gândirea: falsa cauzalitate

The empire of sophisms that dominates our thinking: false causality

Authors

  • Laura Maftei PhD, Adventus University, Cernica, Romania

Keywords:

rhetoric, critical thinking, sophism, false causation, correlation

Abstract

Out of desire to explain things or to make them worky we often create connections in our mind, but without any serious evidence, between events that seem to influence each other. Therefore, we fall into the trap of a so-called false causation sophism, that is defined by the wrong correlation between two events that have an apparent connection but not a real one.

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Published

2019-01-01

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