Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by coldtea on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:55AM
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>Before it became a popular term, it was intended as a criticism of arguments of the form, "A will lead to B will lead to C, so A is bad."
Sorry, this is backwards. Before it became a criticism of arguments "A will lead to B and so on" it was a term used to signify a "slippery slope", that is, something that has the potential to snowball to something much worse.
The name as a "criticism of the fallacy" resulted from the term being used as an argument -- not the other way around.
Sorry, this is backwards. Before it became a criticism of arguments "A will lead to B and so on" it was a term used to signify a "slippery slope", that is, something that has the potential to snowball to something much worse.
The name as a "criticism of the fallacy" resulted from the term being used as an argument -- not the other way around.