8. Causal Slippery Slopes In the last two lectures, we saw how the vagueness of some of the terms that we ordinarily use to describe a relation between two things. The vagueness of those terms can make it easy for us to engage in fellowships. Reasoning makes it easy for us to engage in fallacious reasoning precisely by making it hard for us to notice that the reasoning is. [00:00:29] Fallacious, [00:00:33] both cases, both in the case of a conceptual slippery slope fallacy. And in the case of the fairness, slippery slope fallacy, what happens is we're reasoning about some relation that we're treating as transitive. Right. We think if one thing bears that relation to a second thing, and then a second thing bears that same relation to a third thing. [00:00:58] Then the first thing must bear that relation to the third thing. That's transitivity and for many relations, well, they are transitive, right? So for instance, consider the relation of being greater than. If the first th...