Of all the informal fallacies used in medicine and health, none is more prominent than the slippery slope argument. Issues such as the legalization of abortion on demand and euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide are hotbeds for slippery slope arguments. In this way, it is argued that if we...
1 Further, I want to consider whether acceptance of AS commits one to acceptance of euthanasia (EU). 2 For many fear there is a slippery slope here. They fear that if assisted suicide becomes acceptable, society will be led inexorably to accept euthanasia as well. To those who oppose ...
The "slippery slope" argument format (also known as the "camel's nose in the tent," the "give an inch," the "crack in the foundation", and other names) is essentially that if you make any exceptions to a rule, or if you make rules that depend on fine distinctions, pretty soon peo...
John Keown has constructed a logical slippery slope argument from voluntary euthanasia (VAE) to nonvoluntary euthanasia (NVAE). VAE if justified implies th... Jones,David,Albert - 《Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal》 被引量: 6发表: 2011年 The psychological slippery slope from physician-assiste...
The slippery slope of the middle ground: reconsidering euthanasia in Britain.PhilosophyTheory of Medicine/BioethicsPhilosophy of Medicine... KMA Peter - 《Hec Forum》 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 Reconsidering the dead donor rule: is it important that organ donors be dead? The "dead donor rule" is...
摘要: An ExampleThe Paradigmatic Form of the ArgumentThe Appeal to a Pernicious PrecedentSlopes of ReasonSlopes of UnreasonFactual and Moral PlausibilityAppearance and RealityReferences关键词: slippery slope argument “slippery slope argument” - paradigmatic form of argument appeal to pernicious precedent ...
But as with inductive generalizations, someone would use a slippery slope argument only if she lacked the empirical evidence to support a straightforward causal argument. To explain why, consider the following example. Frank intentionally drops a Ming vase from six feet above a bare concrete floor....
2013. The Groningen Protocol for newborn euthanasia; which way did the slippery slope tilt? Journal of Medical Ethics 39(5): 293-295.Verhagen AA. The Groningen protocol for newborn euthanasia; which way did the slippery slope tilt? J Med Ethics. 2013;39(5):293-5....
Classical informal reasoning "fallacies," for example, begging the question or arguing from ignorance, while ubiquitous in everyday argumentation, have bee... Ulrike,Hahn,Mike,... - 《Psychological Review》 被引量: 310发表: 2007年 The psychological mechanism of the slippery slope argument Slippery...
Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002, amid reassurances that the practice would be used only under desperate circumstances. In the U.S., where euthanasia is illegal, many feared a "slippery slope" similar to the Netherlands. In this podcast, my special guest is Dr. Douglas Anderson,Professor ...