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Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope. Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argume
by tonyedgecombe 5y ago
Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope.
Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argument is a fallacy.
- IncRnd 5y ago> Something taking longer than expected doesn't mean it's a slippery slope. > Whether they were effective or not is orthogonal to whether the slippery slope argument is a fallacy. That is wrong. What you mentioned is the very definition of a slippery slope, where the conditional relationships of the hypothetical syllogism do not hold.