Ross Douthat had a great blog item the other day, saying that on the question of fertility technology, the slippery slope critics warned about has become a reality. Excerpt: James Watson wasn’t ...

Enter: the slippery slope fallacy—which argues ... arguing for the slippery slope sees logical connections that exist, these arguments can be valid. For example, Hurley explains, "a [recovering ...

the slippery slope isn’t a logical fallacy, but a way of life. In our gloomy predictions, we regularly understate how far society will begin kicking us down the slope once we start sliding.

In simple terms, a logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning that ... Laughing when a toddler says the f-word, for example, is a ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...