Interesting Concept

Chapter six contained a lot of useful information for compound claims, but one section I found really interesting is false dilemmas.   The textbook defines false dilemmas as “a bad use of excluding possibilities where the ‘or’ claim is false or implausible, and sometimes just the dubious ‘or’ claim is also a false dilemma.”   I also found the slippery slope argument helpful, which is an argument that is bad and uses conditional which one is either dubious or false.  The book gives an example of a slippery slope argument on page 133.  The argument is presented between two girls, where one would like to go out with a football player, but the other girl insists that she does not go out with one because she assured her friend she would sleep with him and end up pregnant, and live a regretful life.  Her friend then agrees with her and decides she should go out with a basketball player.   This is an example of slippery slope, because the argument was a bad one and it presented conditional claims that were only dubious, her friend cannot guarantee she would end up pregnant and live a regretful life and gave her false reasons.