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Meanings of slippery slope in English
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.
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Examples for "slippery slope argument"
Examples for "slippery slope argument"
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But proponents of the slippery slope argument must be asking: where will it all end?
2
Slippery slope arguments have some force but this judgment comes with crampons.
3
Slippery slope arguments might be seen as a way in which consequentialists can reimport a form of indirect absolutism.
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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.
Usage of slippery slope in English
1
It's a slippery slope, said a Western diplomat familiar with the issue.
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Don't let our country set foot on the slippery slope of nationalism.
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He spiraled down the slippery slope, descending into greater and greater misdeeds.
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Margery took hold of the rope, meanwhile gazing up the slippery slope.
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For Stallman, however, it was the first step down a slippery slope.
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Chappelle's scathing critiques were tempered with a juvenile silliness, a slippery slope.
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It's a state of being that requires no name calling, no slippery slope.
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Today, we are at the crest of an immense slippery slope.
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Should we rise up to protect ourselves from this slippery slope?
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Marijuana is the beginning of the end, he told us, a slippery slope.
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To analyse the figures was itself to push Britain down the slippery slope.
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Valve's awesome community outreach may have greased a slippery slope with Boomer bile.
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I was on a slippery slope, was rarely sober, and ended up divorced.
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The younger warriors drew swords and made for the slippery slope.
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She isn't standing at the top of a slippery slope of self-destructive behaviors.
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We began to descend this slippery slope several decades ago.
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Translations for slippery slope
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