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Yankee's Argument Analysis

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The Yankee claimed that, “you could suppose the whole building fell down”. The Yankee’s claim was an Abuse of a Slippery Slope Argument because between the two notions of the boy being innocent and the building falling down, the former can be backed up by evidence and is far more plausible than the latter based purely off of supposition. What he should’ve done was say that if if his only evidence for supposing the defendant was not guilty was because it was possible, then his argument would not be very strong. It is important to recognize Abuses of a Slippery Slope Argument because, they can easily be misinterpreted as an actual argument on why a point is absurd when in reality, only the argument at the bottom of the “slippery slope” is absurd.

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