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To: pickrell

"Slippery slope" is a logical fallacy as well.


35 posted on 04/08/2006 8:24:27 PM PDT by clawrence3
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To: clawrence3
"Slippery slope" is a logical fallacy as well.

Well, no, it's not. History is full of the real thing.

42 posted on 04/08/2006 8:38:07 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: clawrence3
"Slippery slope" is a logical fallacy as well."

Not really. 'Slippery slope' is actually a horse-sense term used to describe how hard it is to get back to the top of a hill once you've started a downward course. It's a truism, not a fallacy. It holds in physics, biology, warfare, religion, and politics. Slippery slope is the mechanism of liberalization.

69 posted on 04/08/2006 9:28:33 PM PDT by CowboyJay (Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
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