Don't Have a Grandson with a Dog Collar:
Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch
While these examples "make visible" the rhetoric of such arguments, it might be prudent to note that some slopes actually ARE slippery, too.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Slippery Slope and Cable TV
In my Critical Thinking class, we deal with "Fallacies that Masquerade as Logic." If you teach Rhetoric or Forensics or Writing or Speech, you may deal with the same issues - like, for instance, the "Slippery Slope" argument. You know - if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, etc. I found some of the most entertaining examples for this logical fallacy in the Direct TV commercials below...
Don't Have a Grandson with a Dog Collar:
Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch
Don't Have a Grandson with a Dog Collar:
Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch
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Come on Randy you know that those commercials are completely true!
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