Anti-patternv1AP-014
First-cause-satisficing anti-pattern
stopping at the first plausible cause rather than tracing the full causal chain, because the mind grabs the nearest available explanation and treats it as the root cause when it is often just the most proximate one
Why This Is an Anti-Pattern
Inverts contradiction-as-data (Contradiction-as-data pattern) by accepting shallow explanations. Violates Cognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems (System 1 shortcuts). Recurs in debugging, medical diagnosis, root cause analysis.