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a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
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a misleading or unsound argument.
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deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness.
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Logic. any of various types of erroneous reasoning that render arguments logically unsound.
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The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. This "argument" has the following form:
- Event X has occurred (or will or might occur).
- Therefore event Y will inevitably happen.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because there is no reason to believe that one event must inevitably follow from another without an argument for such a claim. This is especially clear in cases in which there is a significant number of steps or gradations between one event and another. |
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a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc.
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Law.
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an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal.
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(in a legislative body or assembly) a formal question as to the correctness of a ruling by a presiding officer.
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Obsolete . a formal charge or accusation.
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1. Grammar the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect |
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an unfair preference for or dislike of something |
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