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Slippery Slope Fallacy

Slippery Slope Fallacy. By: Derek Gossett and Bekah Lancaster. Definition. Also known as the camel’s nose

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Slippery Slope Fallacy

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  1. Slippery Slope Fallacy By: Derek Gossett and Bekah Lancaster

  2. Definition • Also known as the camel’s nose • A fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps will simply be bypassed.

  3. Examples • “(1) If you buy a Green Day album, then next you’ll be buying Buzzcocks albums, and before you know it you’ll be a punk with green hair and everything.(2) You don’t want to become a punk.Therefore:(3) You shouldn’t buy a Green Day album.”

  4. More examples • The first step towards inevitably becoming Amy Winehouse.. Slippery Slope isn't always a logical fallacy. The slippery slope is an analogy used to describe any argument that presupposes that if one small step is taken in a particular direction, it will inevitably lead to a more extreme outcome. For example, it is common wisdom that, once you start drinking alone, you're destined to die naked in a gutter with a liver made of pure grain alcohol. It might be true, but it's not necessarily true, and is thus a logical fallacy.

  5. Explanation • The picture shows that if gays can marry, then legal incest and bigamy will happen as a result. • If something happens, then this will occur as a result.

  6. Pop Culture • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zG5U0v3gU • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udQSHWpL88&feature=relmfu • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObFc64OnEk&feature=related

  7. The Crucible • Act 3: page 214. Speaker: Hathorne, he was asking Giles Corey to give the information. • Act 3: page 223. Speaker: Danforth, questioning Elizabeth Proctor over her husband. • Act 4: page 232-233. Speaker: Danforth, talking about how he had hanged 12 women already.

  8. Citation • "Logical Fallacies» Slippery Slope Fallacy." Logical Fallacies. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. • "Fallacy: Slippery Slope." Holocaust Educational Resource. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. • "DIRECTV - "Don't Have a Grandson with a Dog Collar" 2012 Commercial - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. • "DIRECTV - "Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch" 2012 Commercial - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. • "DIRECTV - "Stop Taking in Stray Animals" 2012 Commercial - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. • "Slippery Slopes | Progressive Political Cartoon by Barry Deutsch." Leftycartoons. Web. 16 Feb. 2012

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