Slippery slope
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In logic and critical thinking, a slippery slope is an informal fallacy. A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.
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See also
- Boiling frog
- Broken windows theory
- Butterfly effect
- Creeping normality
- Euthanasia and the slippery slope
- First they came ...
- Foot-in-the-door technique
- Gateway drug theory
- Overton window
- Precautionary principle
- Precedent
- Snowball effect
- Splitting (psychology)
- Trivial objections
- Slippery
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