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Direct linkCorner, Adam; Hahn, Ulrike; Oaksford, Mike – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Slippery slope arguments (SSAs) have a bad philosophical reputation. They seem, however, to be widely used and frequently accepted in many legal, political, and ethical contexts. Hahn and Oaksford (2007) argued that distinguishing strong and weak SSAs may have a rational basis in Bayesian decision theory. In this paper three experiments…
Descriptors: Probability, Persuasive Discourse, Classification, Correlation
