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+# 2026-01-23 08:18:53
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+This morning I was thinking about the "slippery slope fallacy"
+and how it's a common instrument of an appeal to fallacy fallacy.
+As it turns out, the potential validity of slippery slope arguments is well studied.
+
+[Sorites paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox#Continuum_fallacy)
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+[Many-valued logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-valued_logic)
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+[Fuzzy logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic)
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+Strictly speaking, a slippery slope argument is only fallacious
+if it is not _necessarily_ true that one event must follow another.