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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

Many-valued logic

Fuzzy logic

Strictly speaking, a slippery slope argument is only fallacious if it is not necessarily true that one event must follow another.