Slippery slope arguments
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書誌事項
Slippery slope arguments
（Clarendon library of logic and philosophy）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
大学図書館所蔵 全12件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-287) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A `slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will be unable to extricate yourself, and that eventually you will end up speeding ever faster towards some disastrous outcome. Many textbooks on informal logic and critical thinking treat the slippery slope argument as a fallacy. Douglas Walton argues that slippery slope arguments can be
used correctly in some cases as a reasonable type of argument to shift a burden of proof in a critical discussion, while in other cases they are used incorrectly. In the four central chapters he identifies and analyses four types of slippery slope argument. In each chapter he presents guidelines that
show how each type of slippery slope argument can be used correctly or incorrectly, using over fifty case studies of argumentation on controversial issues. These include abortion, medical research on human embryos, euthanasia, the decriminalization of marijuana, pornography and censorship, and whether or not the burning of the American flag should be banned.
目次
- Introduction and perspectives
- The sorites slippery slope argument
- The causal slippery slope argument
- The precedent slippery slope argument
- The full slippery slope argument
- Analysis of the dialectical structure of slippery slope arguments
- Practical advice on tactics
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