6Dec19 morning Q3
- Option : B
- Explanation : Slippery slope fallacy, also known as absurd extrapolation, thin edge of the wedge, camel '8 nose or domino fallacy, occurs when a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in torn leads to a still more significant event, and so on, until the ultimate, concluding significant event is reached. The connections between successive events are absurd and unwarranted. The connections between the successive events in the given argument, nurses wearing white dress, doctors having private practice, medicines prescribed being expensive and the concluding event 'treatment in the hospital is of poor quality' are absurd. So, it makes a slippery slope fallacy. Fallacy of Accident is the fallacy of applying a general rule to a particular case whose special circumstances render the rule inapplicable. Fallacy of composition occurs when one infers, that if something is true of some part of a whole, it must be true of the whole. Fallacy of division occurs when one reasons, that something that is true of a whole must also be true of all or some of its parts.
