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545. Enough with the Slippery Slopes!

Freakonomics Radio

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The Importance of Logic in Argumentation

Eugene Vollack at the University of California, Los Angeles thinks that rushing to call every slippery slope argument a fallacy is bad practice for a different reason. He says it sounds as though you're saying that calling someone else's argument a Fallacy is cheap and lazy. It makes it sound like you've fully thought this through, but it may not be the case at all.

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