Fallacy: Slippery Slope
Also Known as: The Camel's Nose.
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. In most cases, there are a
series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question
and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will
simply be bypassed. This "argument" has the following form:
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because there is no
reason to believe that one event must inevitably follow from another
without an argument for such a claim. This is especially clear in cases
in which there is a significant number of steps or gradations between
one event and another.
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Description of Slippery Slope
Examples of Slippery Slope