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Govier, Trudy. What’s Wrong with Slippery Slope Arguments?
1982, Canadian journal of philosophy. 12(2): 303-316.
Topics: Applied Epistemology; Logic and Mathematics
Keywords: logical fallacy; slippery slope; soundness; validity
Traditions: Analytic; North American
Languages: English

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Added by: Simon Fokt

Content: Govier distinguishes four kinds of slippery slope arguments - conceptual, precedential, causal and mixed - and argues that only the last kind are likely to ever be sound.

Comment: Useful in teaching about fallacious arguments in general, and about moral arguments an popular discourse about such arguments in particular.

Difficulty: Easy
Recommended use: Introductory reading, Contains a useful overview

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