Slippery slope

What it is

Claims that one step will inevitably lead to extreme consequences without showing that each step in the chain is likely.

Related

• Availability heuristic bias
  A vivid worst-case scenario is easy to imagine, and so feels likely.
• Appeal to fear fallacy
  Slippery slope arguments often work by stoking fear of a worst-case chain of events.
• Appeal to probability fallacy
  Slippery slope arguments assume that because something could follow, it will.

References

• Wikipedia: Slippery slope en.wikipedia.org
• Your Logical Fallacy Is: Slippery slope yourlogicalfallacyis.com
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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