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Khan Academy: Fallacies: Slippery Slope

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In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the slippery slope argument. This argument is that when one event occurs, other related events will follow, and this slippery slope will eventually lead to undesirable consequences. Wu walks us through this rhetorical strategy and shows us how to avoid committing a fallacy. [6:44]

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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