The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

Eugene Volokh | 6.16.2022 8:01 AM This heuristic seems similar to the ad hominem fallacy, in which a speaker asks listeners to reject certain arguments because the arguments are promoted by a group ...

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. Read Full Article » ...

Every now and then, a piece of philosophical theory breaks into the popular consciousness, such that people without any philosophical education regularly refer to it. One such theory is the rejection ...

(via TEDEd) Dig into the slippery slope fallacy, which assumes that one step will lead to a series of events that lead to an extreme— often bad— scenario.

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in last week's posts, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general observations, and turned ...

Amiee Ball is the Founder & CEO of JAB Consulting Group, a company guiding organizations to build successful businesses in a digital world. One of the characteristics of being human is our large ...