Summary
FALSE CAUSE
This is when it is deemed that one thing is the cause of another due to a presumption that there is a real or perceived relationship between the two things.
EXAMPLE:
These days a lot of people are inaccurately attributing capitalism as the cause of predatory and monopolistic practices by corporations, and are thus erroneously characterizing capitalism as something bad. People presume a causal relationship between capitalism and monopolies by characterizing monopolies as an outcome of free markets that capitalism promotes. This is a logical fallacy of false cause as capitalism does not have any causal relationship with monopolies because capitalism does not give rise to monopolies and neither does capitalism support monopolies. The free markets that capitalism promotes are “free” in the sense that consumers set prices via a competition between different producers. Monopolies take away the power of consumers to set prices as monopolies kill competition, by giving one parent company the whole market share of a product. As such, monopolies run counter to the free markets that capitalism promotes. Thus there is no causal relationship between capitalism and monopolies.
