Arthritis of the Knee. Arthritis of the knee is a condition in which there is loss of the articular cartilage of the femur, tibia, or patella. This can be seen on x-ray as a loss of the space between the two ends of bone. X-Ray of an Arthritic Knee.
Causal oversimplification is a specific kind of false dilemma where conjoint possibilities are ignored. In other words, the possible causes are assumed to be A or B or C when A and B and C or A and B and not C (etc.) are not taken into consideration.
The fallacy is also known as: 1  Illicit generalization. 2  Fallacy of insufficient sample. 3  Generalization from the particular.  Leaping to a 1  conclusion. Hasty induction.  Law of small 1  numbers. Unrepresentative sample.  Secundum quid.