Idioms, Fallacies, and Paradoxes

Fallacy of the Single Cause

Otherwise known as casual oversimplification, complex cause, casual reductionism, or reduction fallacy.

A fallacy of questionable cause that occurs when it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.

It can be logically reduced to: X caused Y. Therefore, X was the only cause of Y (although A, B, C...etc. also contributed to Y).

A specific kind of false dilemma where conjoint possibilities are ignored and not taken into consideration.