The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in last week's posts, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general observations, and turned ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in Wednesday's post and yesterday's post, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general ...

If you participate at all in online discussions, particularly on social media, you’ve likely seen someone discuss the idea of the “slippery slope” fallacy. Read Full Article » ...

(via TEDEd) Dig into the slippery slope fallacy, which assumes that one step will lead to a series of events that lead to an extreme— often bad— scenario.

Amiee Ball is the Founder & CEO of JAB Consulting Group, a company guiding organizations to build successful businesses in a digital world. One of the characteristics of being human is our large ...

Someone’s always worried that something new is going to lead us down a slippery slope to ruin. When a documentary about deceased chef Anthony Bourdain included footage in which a synthetic voice ...