Identify the oversimplification in this statement: "Every morning, the rooster crows, and then the sun rises. The rooster's crow must be what makes the sun rise."

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Responses

false cause

false cause

slippery slope

slippery slope

false dilemma

false dilemma

hasty generalization

hasty generalization

straw man

Answer 1

The oversimplification in the statement is an example of false cause. This fallacy occurs when a correlation is mistakenly interpreted as a cause-and-effect relationship. In this case, simply because the rooster crows before the sun rises, it does not mean that the crowing causes the sun to rise.