Slippery Slope Vs. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

Which type of fallacy?

“Ever since Clyde started cozying up with the teacher and talking really nice to her, he has been getting A’s and B’s on his tests in her class. It’s very obvious that he is now the teacher’s pet. I think it’s unfair.”

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?
"Larry was a kind, gentle man. He always spoke softly and was kind to his wife. Then his wife started to buy crunchy instead of creamy peanut butter. Soon, Larry showed signs of being easily irritated. His voice sounded gruff, and he was rude to the neighbors. When Larry’s wife noticed this, she went around the house and threw out all of the crunchy peanut butter."

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?
FARMER MCDONALD: Ever since they put up that new power plant across the river, we haven’t had a bit of rain. I’m telling you, mankind has gotten too big for its britches when it fiddles around with nature.

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?

CITY COUNCILMEMBER: If we grant this permit to build this Islamic mosque in our city, it’s going to open the floodgates to terrorists! Before we know it, we’ll have people planting bombs in City Hall!

• Slippery slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?
MOTHER: There you go, making the candlesticks on the shelf symmetrical. You’re becoming obsessive compulsive [OCD]!

DAUGHTER: I’m just straightening them a little.

MOTHER: Before you know it, you’ll be complaining when someone steps on the carpet and makes footprints.

DAUGHTER: No, I won’t.

MOTHER: And then you’ll start washing your hands every few minutes and refuse to touch doorknobs.

• Slippery slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?

LETTER TO A NEWSPAPER: If we let the government implant tracking devices in criminals, it’s not going to stop there! They’re going to want to track schoolchildren and eventually everybody!

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What kind of fallacy?
“If you’re going to add that much salt to the soup, you might as well pour the whole container in!”

• Slippery slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?

CLARENCEDARROW: If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session, you may ban books and the newspapers. … Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when people lit torches to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

What type of fallacy?

• Slippery Slope

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc