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    It is not the case that Slippery slope arguments cannot be automatically dismissed as fallacious

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    • 1.Slippery slope arguments structurally presuppose causal inevitability between steps, but empirical contingency means no such necessity can be established a priori.
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    • 2.Without a demonstrated mechanism linking each step, the argument form licenses any prohibition by speculative extrapolation, rendering it epistemically vacuous.
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    • 1.Walton's own pragma-dialectical framework shows slippery slope arguments are only non-fallacious when the causal chain is independently verifiable, not merely plausible.
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    • 2.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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    • 1.If it is true that some action will precipitate a chain of consequences leading down an alleged slippery slope, this is a good reason to question that action
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    • 2.An argument that accurately identifies such a causal chain has genuine evidential force
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