Statement #83 Discussion
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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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1,212 Total Answer Attempts 19%
230 Correctly Popped Fallacies
982 Incorrectly Un/Popped
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Most Common Responses58 - Appeal to Ridicule 49 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 48 - Burden of Proof 46 - Begging the Question 46 - Ignoring a Common Cause 46 - False Dilemma 45 - Misleading Vividness 42 - Appeal to Common Practice 40 - Appeal to Belief 39 - Relativist Fallacy 38 - Appeal to Authority 38 - Red Herring 36 - Special Pleading 34 - Fallacy of Composition 32 - Appeal to Fear 29 - Biased Generalization 29 - Hasty Generalization 27 - Post Hoc 25 - Gambler's Fallacy 24 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 24 - Confusing Cause and Effect 22 - Appeal to Spite 20 - Genetic Fallacy 18 - Fallacy of Division 16 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 16 - Appeal to Emotion 15 - Poisoning the Well 14 - Ad Hominem 10 - Appeal to Novelty 9 - Middle Ground 9 - Personal Attack 9 - Appeal to Tradition 8 - Appeal to Pity 7 - Guilt by Association 7 - Peer Pressure 4 - Appeal to Popularity 3 - Appeal to Flattery |