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    In the absence of such verification, accepting the argume... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Slippery slope arguments cannot be automatically dismissed as fallacious

    In the absence of such verification, accepting the argument conflates rhetorical persuasiveness with logical validity, a distinction Hamblin's 'Fallacies' (1970) treats as foundational.

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    Charles Hamblin(the subject of this statement)
    A philosopher who wrote an influential book called 'Fallacies' in 1970 that changed how philosophers think about logical errors and bad arguments.
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Fallacies (1970)(a foundational work in logic)
    An influential book by Hamblin that challenged traditional views about what makes an argument 'bad' and showed that persuasiveness and logical validity are not the same thing.
    Foundational(as the opposite of what cross-individual coordination is claimed to be)
    Serving as a basic starting point or fundamental building block from which other things are derived or built upon.
    Logical validity

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    (as used in logic)
    When an argument's conclusion must be true if all its starting assumptions are true, regardless of what the words specifically refer to.
    rhetorical persuasiveness(in rhetoric and argumentation)
    The quality of being convincing or emotionally compelling in speech or writing, regardless of whether the underlying reasoning is actually sound.
    verification(Wright's epistemological position (PD 47))
    Empirical judgment made upon deduction of consequences, not induction from sense data or self-consciousness.

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