--- id: 2026-01-23T08:18:53-0500 title: 2026-01-23 08:18:53 tags: daily: "[[2026-01-23]]" --- # 2026-01-23 08:18:53 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) [Many-valued logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-valued_logic) [Fuzzy logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic) Strictly speaking, a slippery slope argument is only fallacious if it is not _necessarily_ true that one event must follow another.