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Significados de slippery slope argument em inglês

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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"
        Examples for "slippery slope"
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        It's a slippery slope, said a Western diplomat familiar with the issue.
        Reuters
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        Don't let our country set foot on the slippery slope of nationalism.
        BBC
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        He spiraled down the slippery slope, descending into greater and greater misdeeds.
        Wired
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        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...
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        For Stallman, however, it was the first step down a slippery slope.
        Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
        Uso de slippery slope argument em inglês
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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