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 [of slippery
slope arguments] Lawyers use them all the time. Whether the imagery
employed is the floodgates, icebergs, dominoes, snowballs or the camel's
nose in the tent, or the argument is more decorously tricked out as sorites
paradox etc., the assumption is similar: a proposed course of reasoning will lead on to
further developments to which there is no obvious end."
Roderick Munday, Cambridge
Law Journal
"A great virtue of Walton's book is his discussion of the actual mechanisms that
power the slide down the slippery slope. Typically this is handled through hand-waving;
Walton, however, carries out a detailed and impressive examination of specific forces -
psychological, institutional, social - that may propel the slide down ... It is such
careful scrutiny of these common but traditionally ignored issues that makes Walton's book
a rich and rewarding pleasure."
Bruce N. Waller, Mind
$22.45 paper ISBN 0916475-212
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Douglas N. Walton
Douglas N. Walton is the world's most prolific writer on fallacies. He
co-authored influential articles with John Woods gathered as Fallacies:
Selected Papers 1972-1982. Among Walton's more widely read works, in
addition to the above, are Informal Logic, A Handbook for Critical
Argumentation, Argument Structure. A Pragmatic Theory, and The
Place of Emotion in Argument. Walton is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Winnipeg.
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