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Slippery Slope Arguments (Hardcover)
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Slippery Slope Arguments (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
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A `slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you
that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in
a sequence of consequences from which you will be unable to
extricate yourself, and that eventually you will end up speeding
ever faster towards some disastrous outcome. Many textbooks on
informal logic and critical thinking treat the slippery slope
argument as a fallacy. Douglas Walton argues that slippery slope
arguments can be used correctly in some cases as a reasonable type
of argument to shift a burden of proof in a critical discussion,
while in other cases they are used incorrectly. In the four central
chapters he identifies and analyses four types of slippery slope
argument. In each chapter he presents guidelines that show how each
type of slippery slope argument can be used correctly or
incorrectly, using over fifty case studies of argumentation on
controversial issues. These include abortion, medical research on
human embryos, euthanasia, the decriminalization of marijuana,
pornography and censorship, and whether or not the burning of the
American flag should be banned.
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