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		saurik on Aug 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Slippery Slope Is Not a Fallacy The Wikipedia entry for Slippery Slope even has a whole section on non-fallacious uses, and I think the definition on this other list of fallacies provides another reasonable explanation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope http://www.csun.edu/%7Edgw61315/fallacies.html#Slippery%20sl...

gavinhoward on Aug 9, 2021 [–]

That second link is a good one, thank you!

Yeah, I was aware of non-fallacious usage in Wikipedia, but people seem to ignore that. You are correct, though.

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