Talk:slippery slope fallacy

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slippery slope fallacy

This seems purely SoP, either as slippery slope + fallacy or as (slippery slope [metaphor]) + fallacy.

No OneLook dictionary has this as an entry. It might be worth keeping as a redirect to slippery slope or as a {{no entry}} pointing to w:Slippery slope fallacy. DCDuring TALK 22:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

• Redirect to slippery slope. Harmless. bd2412 T 03:12, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete as sum-of-parts. Anyone who looks up "slippery slope" will find that entry before the redirect. P Aculeius (talk) 03:49, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
• Comment: if you delete this, it will only be a matter of time before you end up deleting everything else too. Pandeist (talk) 06:50, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I think that would be a better example if the connection between this and everything else were apparent. P Aculeius (talk) 12:56, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

What Pandeist said is an excellent example of a slippery slope fallacy. I think it was a rather brilliant joke. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:21, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

(doffs hat, nods) Pandeist (talk) 05:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

A nice example. Note that I would never know this is called "slippery slope fallacy". Even if this is easy for decoding (which I am not convinced of), it is not easy for encoding, i.e. finding the English phrase that names the thing in question. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:07, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

• I point out that the fallacy sense of slippery slope is currently in RFV, and may be removed. Once it is removed, slippery slope fallacy will not be sum of parts; I reject the claim that "slippery slope-sense 1 [metaphor] + fallacy" unambiguously yields you the sought definition. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:59, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I disagree. It's simply "slippery slope + noun", and it makes no difference if that noun is "fallacy, argument, assertion, metaphor, discussion, refrain, point, attack, foolishness", or any similar word. Can you provide a demonstrable meaning for "slippery slope fallacy" other than "a fallacious slippery slope argument"? Currently, that's how the definition for "slippery slope fallacy" appears to read: "A fallacy of argument consisting in making an unjustified claim that taking the first step in a certain direction will unleash further steps or events in that direction, resulting in a negative outcome." That's just "fallacy + slippery slope", although the word "unjustified" really isn't inherent in "slippery slope", but implied from the assertion of fallacy, and the negativity of the outcome necessarily depends on one's point of view, although it may be usual for the person making the argument to assume that it is negative (but only if he or she is trying to dissuade someone from initiating a chain of events; one could conceivably use a slippery slope argument to persuade someone to initiate it). P Aculeius (talk) 12:56, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Delete (or redirect per bd). As P Aculeius points out, this does not seem to be any more idiomatic than "slippery slope argument" or any of several other phrases. - -sche (discuss) 22:39, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

• RFD failed and redirected. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:57, 19 March 2016 (UTC)