Abstract
Abstract In the current literature two points of view on the slippery slope argument have dominated most studies of it. One is to see it as an informal fallacy. The general presumption in this approach is that the slippery slope argument is either inherently fallacious, or at least is such a suspicious argument that one should normally denounce it on sight as a fallacy. This presumption, although it is understandable, has led the textbook treatments to neglect serious research into the underlying structure of the slippery slope as a serious or important type of argumentation. For the real reason this argument is so convincing when used as a sophistical tactic is that, when used properly, it is a reasonable and highly persuasive argument.
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