Slippery slope
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In a slippery-slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. The core of the slip
This 1895 cartoon makes a slippery-slope argument of how weddings would look in 2001 if women got the right to vote.
Sorites paradox
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The Sorites paradox, sometimes known as the paradox of the heap, is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation involves a heap of sand, from which grains are removed individua
Slippery slope
…demonstrably likely to result in the claimed effects, this is called the slippery-slope fallacy. This is a type of informal fallacy, and is a subset of continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. Other idioms for the slippery…
The sorites paradox: If a heap is reduced by a single grain at a time, at what exact point does it cease to be considered a heap?