Often with this logical fallacy, a person will accept that a proposed chain of events — in other words, the slippery slope — will happen without verifying such a likelihood. ...

This fallacy and the next one involve mistakes in conditional "if-then" statements. "If A, then B" in a logical context just means that whenever A is true, B is also true.

Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates. Nur Ibrahim Published Feb. 3, 2023 ...