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Description and examples of Slippery Slope fallacy.
Describes and gives examples of two forms of the informal logical fallacy of slippery slope.
In debate or rhetoric, the slippery slope is one of the classical informal fallacies. It suggests that an action will initiate a chain of events culminating in an undesirable event later without establishing or quantifying the relevant contingencies. The argument is sometimes referred to as the thin...
but in logic, the term has a more specific meaning: a fallacy is a technical flaw which makes an argument unsound or invalid.
When I first posted my description of the Slippery Slope fallacy, ... One of the criticisms I received was that the slippery slope fallacy was not really a fallacy in this case.
Kurtz discusses in some depth what he perceives to be the "slippery-slope implications" of this story. ... The problem with Kurtz' reasoning is the problem inherent in nearly all slippery slope arguments.
The principal concern of those who advance the slippery slope objection against active euthanasia is that, even if the first step of two are not morally objectionable, it will inevitably lead ...
The slippery slope fallacy occurs when an argument exaggerates the possible future consequences of an action, ... To suggest otherwise commits the slippery slope fallacy.
Figure of Speech: Slippery Slope, the fallacy of dire consequences. ... Slippery slope is a logical fallacy, but arguably not a rhetorical one (we reserve the right to contradict ourselves).
Acceding to the nonexistent pressure from hoi polloi and punishing Dalton for his journal, the argument goes, would be the first step on a slippery slope to fascist thought police banning all ...
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