The causal fallacy, also known as the post hoc fallacy or false cause, occurs when someone assumes that because one event precedes another, it must have caused the subsequent event. This overlooks other potential factors or variables that could have influenced the outcome and falsely attributes causation based on temporal sequence alone.

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