6 hours ago · Welcome to our own argument clinic as we discuss this very short and readable field guide to bad arguments (click: Logical Fallacies). Being able to spot them is the first step to defeating them. There are seven types: the appeal to ignorance, ad hominem attacks, the slippery slope analogy, the straw man, the appeal to authority, the false ...
Logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect
In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes that the arguer is stupid. The core of the slippery slope argument is that a specific decision under debate is likely to result in unintended consequences. The strength of such an argument depends on whether the small step really is likely to lead to the effect. This is quantified in terms of ... Wikipedia
