The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument

Abstract

In this paper, I shall intend to show that the Sorites argument lies at the core of the Slippery Slope Argument and, for this reason, I shall deal with the logical validity of this argument. Once established its logical validity, I shall try to argue that the second premise of the Sorites argument – the premise in accordance with if an individual i has the property P by having n unities of something, then another individual i' which has n-1 unities is also P- in this kind of argument is always false; finally I shall draw some conclusions as to the way to stop the Slippery Slope.