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Meanings of slippery slope argument in English

Portuguese
bola de neve
Catalan
efecte bola de neu
Spanish
pendiente resbaladiza

Logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect.

bola de neve
Synonyms
Examples for "slippery slope"
Examples for "slippery slope"
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It's a slippery slope, said a Western diplomat familiar with the issue.
Reuters
2
Don't let our country set foot on the slippery slope of nationalism.
BBC
3
He spiraled down the slippery slope, descending into greater and greater misdeeds.
Wired
4
Margery took hold of the rope, meanwhile gazing up the slippery slope.
The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills; Or, The Missing Pilot of th...
5
For Stallman, however, it was the first step down a slippery slope.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
Usage of slippery slope argument in English
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But proponents of the slippery slope argument must be asking: where will it all end?
The Guardian
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Slippery slope arguments have some force but this judgment comes with crampons.
The Guardian
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Slippery slope arguments might be seen as a way in which consequentialists can reimport a form of indirect absolutism.
The god delusion
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Slippery slope arguments could therefore lead us to give the moment of birth more significance than utilitarianism, narrowly interpreted, would prefer.
The god delusion