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"rene broke a mirror this morning, so this is why she got into a car accident after class." is an example of which fallacy?

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The example provided is an example of the false cause fallacy, where a person mistakenly believes that one event caused another just because they happened in sequence.

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The example provided, "Rene broke a mirror this morning, so this is why she got into a car accident after class," is an example of the false cause fallacy.

This fallacy occurs when a person believes that just because one event occurs after another, the first event is the cause of the second one.

In this case, breaking the mirror in the morning is wrongly assumed to be the cause of the car accident after class.

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The type of fallacy that is being described in the scenario above is the casual fallacy. A casual fallacy is having to use or conclude ideas in which cause a certain scenario or experience in which is not even correctly identified.

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