Frivolous literary note

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Meg Larson shares Rhet Theory from HELL!:
> [...] [n]otice that the fallacy of slippery
> slope occurs when someone falsely claims that a proposal will lead to
> undesirable consequences.  If someone can show that in fact a proposal will
> have a bad result, then there is no fallacy."

Thanks, it's much clearer now. Looks like the law school types and the
rhetoric types are looking at the same argument from different
perspectives. The law school types think that the Slippery Slope
Argument is valid because they think that making exceptions to rules
WILL result in all those undesirable consequences (and thus it's not a
fallacy). Whereas the rhetoric types are considering the case that those
undesirable consequences will not necessarily happen (making it a
fallacy).

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
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