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.

From the slippery slope to the strawman, which logical fallacy do you encounter most often? If you allow your kids to stay up past their bedtime tonight, they’ll stay up late every night.

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 5 Common Terms That Double as Logical Fallacies.

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 ...

When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' or 'whataboutism' to seem more convincing.

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.

The anti-stem-cell slippery slope argument goes like this: If you permit scientists to destroy human embryos for the purpose of research, it’s a slippery slope from there to killing human ...

Commonly referred to as the, dam burst fallacy, domino fallacy or thin end of a wedge, the slippery slope fallacy is an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of ...