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Lesson 2: Fallacies- Fallacies: Formal and Informal Fallacies
- Formal and Informal Fallacies
- Fallacies: Fallacy of Composition
- Fallacies: Fallacy of Division
- Division and Composition
- Fallacies: Introduction to Ad Hominem
- Fallacies: Ad Hominem
- Ad Hominem, Part 1
- Ad Hominem, Part 2
- Fallacies: Affirming the Consequent
- Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent
- Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent
- Fallacies: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
- Fallacies: Appeal to the People
- Fallacies: Begging the Question
- Begging the Question
- Fallacies: Equivocation
- Fallacies: Straw Man Fallacy
- Fallacies: Slippery Slope
- Fallacies: Red Herring
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Fallacies: Slippery Slope
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the slippery slope argument. This argument is that when one event occurs, other related events will follow, and this slippery slope will eventually lead to undesirable consequences. Wu walks us through this rhetorical strategy and shows us how to avoid committing a fallacy.
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- The questions at5:46are some serious stuff. While they are on the path to being a slippery slope, they should not be discarded.(2 votes)
- At5:30, how could you stop that slippery slope?(1 vote)
- I think one may be able to make an argument on the basis of absolute breakage of speed limit. for although 70 is only 1 more than 69, 70 is 5 more than 65, which was the original speed limit. Therefore one could draw an absolute line to not be crossed even when the line is only 1 more than what's behind it.(1 vote)
- Aren't we on a slippery slope with the current (5/6/19) obstructionist behavior of the executive branch in the US? Almost on a daily basis we are confronted with denial of constitutional norms thanks to no Republican resistance. I think this fits all the criteria of being on a slippery slope towards a monarchy, or worse.(1 vote)
- Slippery Slope example :
If I buy a dog at the pound
then the keepers will say to buy another dog and I will have to buy all the dogs therefor I will not buy a dog !(0 votes)