Description and examples of Slippery Slope fallacy. ... The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.
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Slippery slope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope (also the thin edge of the wedge or the camel's nose ) is a classical informal fallacy. A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first ste...
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Describes and gives examples of two forms of the informal logical fallacy of slippery slope. ... An eloquent example of the causal slippery slope fallacy. In over seventy-five years since the Scopes trial, which Darrow lost, few if any of the horrors that he paraded before the jury have taken place.
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The Stem Cell Slippery Slope Fallacy - The Huffington Post ... The anti-stem-cell slippery slope argument goes like this: If you permit scientists to destroy human embryos for the purpose of research, it's a slippery slope from there to killing human fetuses in order to harvest tissue, and from there to euthanizing disabled...
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Slippery Slope Fallacy; an explanation and an example of this logical fallacy. ... This argument commits the slippery slope fallacy because it is perfectly possible to buy a Green Day album without going on to become a punk; we could buy the album and then stop there. The conclusion therefore hasn’t been proven,
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A common form is an attack on sincerity. For example, "How can you argue for vegetarianism when you wear leather shoes?" The two wrongs make a right fallacy is related. ... Straw Man (Fallacy Of Extension): attacking an exaggerated or caricatured version of your opponent's position. ... Slippery Slope Fallacy (Camel's Nose)
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In order to show that a proposition P is unacceptable, a sequence of increasingly unacceptable events is shown to follow from P. A slippery slope is an illegitimate use of the "if-then" operator.
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If a person stands on a slippery slope, then one small misstep can force him to fall or begin the avalanche that causes havoc or destruction down the hill. The slippery slope fallacy occurs when an argument exaggerates the possible future consequences of an action, usually with the intention of frightening the audience;
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The problem with Kurtz' reasoning is the problem inherent in nearly all slippery slope arguments. The slippery slope analogy assumes that society exists on a level plateau situated atop a giant arcing slope.
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The Badger Herald is an independent student newspaper serving the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ... First, this slippery slope reasoning is absurd and I see no link between allowing homosexuals to marry and allowing multiple people to marry each other.
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