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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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1,098 Total Answer Attempts 19%
214 Correctly Popped Fallacies
884 Incorrectly Un/Popped
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Most Common Responses47 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 44 - Burden of Proof 42 - Ignoring a Common Cause 42 - Appeal to Ridicule 40 - Appeal to Common Practice 40 - False Dilemma 39 - Misleading Vividness 38 - Begging the Question 37 - Appeal to Belief 35 - Special Pleading 35 - Appeal to Authority 35 - Relativist Fallacy 34 - Red Herring 30 - Appeal to Fear 29 - Fallacy of Composition 27 - Hasty Generalization 26 - Biased Generalization 26 - Post Hoc 25 - Gambler's Fallacy 23 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 22 - Appeal to Spite 20 - Confusing Cause and Effect 17 - Fallacy of Division 17 - Genetic Fallacy 16 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 14 - Ad Hominem 12 - Appeal to Emotion 11 - Poisoning the Well 10 - Appeal to Novelty 9 - Personal Attack 9 - Appeal to Tradition 8 - Middle Ground 7 - Appeal to Pity 6 - Guilt by Association 6 - Peer Pressure 4 - Appeal to Popularity 2 - Appeal to Flattery |
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