Alice's cat always sneezes just before it rains.
Alice heard her cat sneeze and thought "It will rain soon".
Is Alice guaranteed to be right?
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No, it is not. Indeed, the fact that event A (rain) always causes B (cat's sneeze) does not mean that B causes event A. This is one example of a very common sort of logical error, the confusion of a statement with its converse.