Slippery slope arguments:
A 'slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will be unable to extricate yourself, and that eventually you will end up speeding ever faster towards some disast...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A 'slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will be unable to extricate yourself, and that eventually you will end up speeding ever faster towards some disastrous outcome. Many textbooks on informal logic and critical thinking treat the slippery slope argument as a fallacy. Douglas Walton argues that slippery slope arguments can be used correctly in some cases as a reasonable type of argument to shift a burden of proof in a critical discussion, while in other cases they are used incorrectly. In the four central chapters he identifies and analyses four types of slippery slope argument. In each chapter he presents guidelines that show how each type of slippery slope argument can be used correctly or incorrectly, using over fifty case studies of argumentation on controversial issues. These include abortion, medical research on human embryos, euthanasia, the decriminalization of marijuana, pornography and censorship, and whether or not the burning of the American flag should be banned. |
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| adam_text | Titel: Slippery slope arguments
Autor: Walton, Douglas N.
Jahr: 1992
Contents
List of Illustrations xiii
1. Introduction and Perspectives 1
1. The Three Basic Types of Slippery Slope Argument 3
2. The Combined or Full Version 6
3. Four Previous Developments 11
4. Summary of Main Theses 13
5. The Pragmatic Perspective on Arguments 16
6. Stages of Argumentative Dialogue 19
7. Fallacies as Sophistical Refutations 23
8. The Tip of the Iceberg Theory 27
9. The Language of Fallacies 29
10. A New Theory of Fallacy 31
2. The Sorites Slippery Slope Argument 37
1. Ancient Origins: The Heap and the Bald Man 37
2. The Sorites Paradox 39
3. The Practical Problem of the Use of the Sorites Argument 41
4. Verbal Disputes and Vague Concepts: The Abortion Case 45
5. Modus Operandi of the Sorites Slippery Slope 50
6. Argumentation Scheme for the Sorites Slippery Slope 53
7. Appropriate Critical Questions 57
8. Precise Definition and Arbitrariness 60
9. What Is the Fallacy? 63
10. Rights in Using Vague Terms and Proposing Definitions in a
Discussion 66
3. The Causal Slippery Slope Argument 69
1. The Textbook Accounts 69
2. Dependency on Empirical Evidence 75
3. Cases of Drug Addiction 78
4. Practical Reasoning 87
5. Argumentation Scheme for the Causal Slippery Slope 91
6. Critical Questions for the Causal Slippery Slope 95
7. Fallacy or Weak Argument? 98
8. Does the Causal Slippery Slope Fallacy Exist? 101
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9. Classification Problems 105
10. Rethinking the Causal Slippery Slope 110
4. The Precedent Slippery Slope Argument 115
1. Precedents in Argumentation 117
2. Varieties of Precedent Slopes 122
3. Fallacious or Not? 128
4. Case-Based Reasoning 131
5. Ad Hominem Circumstantial Inconsistency 137
6. Personal Circumstances and Actions 141
7. Rebutting Arguments from Case-to-Case Inconsistency 144
8. Exceptions to the Rule 146
9. Antecedent Climate of Opinion 151
10. Argumentation Scheme for the Precedent Slippery Slope 153
5. The Full Slippery Slope Argument 160
1. Two Classic Cases of Euthanasia 161
2. A Case of Pornography and Censorship 167
3. The Short Form 170
4. Techniques of Attack 173
5. The Public Acceptance Premise 176
6. Feedback and Circular Reasoning 178
7. Ad Populum and Ad Baculum Arguments 184
8. The Argument from Popularity 189
9. Argumentation Scheme for the Full Slippery Slope 198
10. Critical Questions for the Full Slippery Slope 201
6. Analysis of the Dialectical Structure of Slippery Slope
Arguments 207
1. The Six Basic Characteristics 208
2. The Argument from Gradualism 211
3. Slippery Slope as a Gradualistic Argument 213
4. Presumptive Conditionals 216
5. Presumptive Argumentation 219
6. The Composite Nature of Slippery Slope 222
7. The Forwards and Backwards Movement 225
8. The Mechanism of the Movement 226
9. When Is a Slippery Slope Argument Fallacious? 229
10. A New Approach Opened Up 236
Contents xi
7. Practical Advice on Tactics 242
1. Effective Refutation 242
2. The Framework of Practical Reasoning 246
3. The Tactical Framework 249
4. The Prisoners Voting Case 255
5. Six Tactics to Counter a Slippery Slope 259
6. Applying the First Tactic 264
7. The Case of Texas . Johnson 267
8. Public Reaction in the Flag-Burning Case 272
9. Pinning the Fallacy Down 277
10. Underlying Structural Characteristics 280
References 283
Index 289
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