One way to combat harmful contagion is to draw on an idea first used in the 1960s called pre-bunking. The idea is to train ...

About 200 people opposed to Trump administration policies gathered for an Independence Day “249 Years With No Kings” ...

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

Trump might have started lobbing logical fallacies at business rivals in closed-door real estate negotiations decades ago, tested them in public on the advice of his old legal enforcer Roy Cohn as ...

In the intricate world of human reasoning, logic traps are lurking at every corner, waiting to trap even the most astute thinkers. These common logic traps, often disguised as seemingly sound ...

3. Slippery slope This is the argument that taking one step, or putting into place one measure, will inevitably lead to more and more drastic measures – like an object sliding down a slippery slope.

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

Understand the difference between a slippery slope and other logical fallacies to enhance decision-making in Business Intelligence.

In business strategy debates, you might encounter a slippery slope fallacy, a logical misstep where a relatively small first event is suggested to lead to a chain of related events culminating in ...

Understanding (and avoiding) slippery slope fallacies A common argument made by those who are against student loan forgiveness is that it’s a slippery slope into higher inflation rates and an endless ...