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If it was truly dangerous, they'd have ski patrol keeping us off, not just a dumb warning sign.
Slippery Slope
AKA The Camel's Nose Category: Fallacies of Presumption → Casual Fallacies The Slippery Slope is 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 or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. This "argument" has the following form:
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989 Total Answer Attempts 20%
197 Correctly Popped Fallacies
792 Incorrectly Un/Popped
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Most Common Responses42 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 40 - Burden of Proof 39 - Appeal to Ridicule 38 - Appeal to Common Practice 37 - Misleading Vividness 36 - Ignoring a Common Cause 35 - Begging the Question 35 - Special Pleading 35 - False Dilemma 34 - Appeal to Belief 33 - Relativist Fallacy 29 - Appeal to Authority 29 - Red Herring 24 - Post Hoc 24 - Appeal to Fear 23 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 23 - Biased Generalization 23 - Fallacy of Composition 23 - Gambler's Fallacy 20 - Appeal to Spite 19 - Hasty Generalization 17 - Confusing Cause and Effect 16 - Genetic Fallacy 15 - Fallacy of Division 15 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 13 - Ad Hominem 11 - Appeal to Emotion 10 - Poisoning the Well 9 - Appeal to Novelty 9 - Appeal to Tradition 7 - Middle Ground 7 - Personal Attack 6 - Guilt by Association 6 - Appeal to Pity 4 - Appeal to Popularity 4 - Peer Pressure 2 - Appeal to Flattery |
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