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Ahh, the old slippery slope. (Destiny)

by RaichuKFM @, Northeastern Ohio, Friday, June 26, 2015, 15:03 (3232 days ago) @ Vortech

Nono. As someone with Logic and Philosophy degrees, it's a formal fallacy.

Yep.

It can be a sensible argument, at times, but the structure of it is never a logical one. It just doesn't actually follow from premises, right?

Of course, dismissing an argument as slippery slope, and thus fallacious, out of hand, (not that it happened here) is itself a fallacy. Such an argument can have a correct conclusion, even with bad reasoning.


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