Snopestionary: The 'Slippery Slope' Logical Fallacy Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.

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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.

Logicians call the slippery slope a classic logical fallacy. There’s no reason to reject doing one thing, they say, just because it might open the door for some undesirable extreme; permitting ...

They're called logical fallacies. Simply put, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that, ... like an object sliding down a slippery slope. It's particularly common in debates over policy.

The Stem Cell Slippery Slope Fallacy. By Marty Kaplan Published March 9, ... The when-life-begins argument is about logical consistency. Life is ... But the slippery slope argument is all about ...

If you participate at all in online discussions, particularly on social media, you’ve likely seen someone discuss the idea of the “slippery slope” fallacy.