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Let me try to provide... --- ...a very banal example of this fallacy Eric.
A terminal cancer patient gets infected by covid-19 but doctors manage to put the infection under control and he recovers. A few weeks/months later he dies because of the cancer.
Claiming that he died because of the covid-19 infection would have a fallacy of false cause.
Source author: Andrej Skrinjaric andrejs@diplomacy.edu
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