slippery slope
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logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect
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Within Vinony's link graph, slippery slope is referenced by 251 other articles, and connects out to irrelevant conclusion, sorites paradox and anecdotal evidence.
It is catalogued under topics including American legal terminology, Causal fallacies and Inductive fallacies.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
653 papers- Slippery Slope.The American journal of sports medicine · 2019
- MAiD: How Slippery is its Slope?HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2025
- A slippery slope.Survey of ophthalmology · 2019
- A slippery slope: On the origin, role and physiology of mucus.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2018
- Nursing research: On the brink of a slippery slope.International journal of nursing studies · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- informal fallacy
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- different from
- converse accident
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