In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope ( also known as thin end of the wedge-or sometimes " edge " in US English-or the camel's nose ) is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy.

This argument is similar to the classic argument from evil in that it affirms inconsistency between the world that exists and the world that should exist if God had certain desires combined with the power to see them through.

That, in turn, is based on the classic argument in the original Black – Scholes paper.

According to Scottish linguist Deborah Cameron, " the classic Orwellian argument for finding this usage objectionable would be that

The classic argument to illustrate this point of view is the use of women as a ' reserve army of labour '.

His next famous case was Chudleigh's Case, a dispute over the interpretation of the Statute of Uses, while his third was Slade's Case, a dispute between the Common Pleas and King's Bench over assumpsit now regarded as a classic example of the friction between the two courts and the forward movement of contract law ; Coke's argument in the case formed the first definition of consideration.

The classic argument for copyright is the view that granting developers temporary monopolies over their works encourages further development and creativity by giving the developer a source of income ; normally copyright is enforced within a framework of Berne convention, instigated by Victor Hugo and signed in 1886.

In the classic argument from illusion ( delusion ) you are asked to compare a case where you succeed in perceiving, say, a cat on a mat, to the case where a trick of light deceives you and form the belief that the cat is on the mat, when it is not.

On the other hand, during the Second Reading a Liberal MP made the classic argument against detailed and prescriptive regulation

This speech is hailed as " a classic argument for free speech during time of war ".

" He advanced the classic liberal argument that consensual sexual acts in private should not be subject to criminal law.

Ryle also created the classic argument against cognitivist theories of explanation, Ryle's Regress.

In philosophy, Ryle's regress is a classic argument against cognitivist theories, and concludes that such theories are essentially meaningless as they do not explain what they purport to.

A classic Malthusian argument has been put forward that Europe was overpopulated: even in good times it was barely able to feed its population.

The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument are the two horns in the classic dilemma and standard argument against free will.

Ms. Carroll and Mr. Kahn help revivify the argument that the right actresses can perform some of the great classic roles traditionally denied to women and make them their own.

The natural-evil-as-necessity argument is meant to be a response to the classic philosophical argument of the Problem of Evil, which contends that an all-powerful, all-knowing and beneficent God cannot exist as such because natural evil ( mudslides which crush the legs of innocent children, for instance ) occurs.

In 1974 he wrote Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections Upon Delaware, an article in the Yale Law Journal that has been cited frequently for decades as the classic argument for federalizing the issuance of corporate charters.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

" Bullmoose's corrupt interests were often pitted against those of the pathetic Lower Slobbovians in a classic mismatch of " haves " versus " have-nots.

The truth is that our classic conception of the conduct of war has come up against a new conception.

' On this theory, Kosinski emerges as a classic borderline personality, frantically defending himself against … all-out psychosis.

Q3A comes with several gameplay modes ; Free for All ( FFA ), a classic deathmatch, where each player competes against the rest for the highest score, Team Deathmatch ( TDM ), where usually two teams of four compete for the highest team frag total, Tournament ( 1v1 ), a deathmatch between two players, usually ending after a set time and Capture the Flag, which is played on symmetrical maps where teams have to recover the enemy flag from the opponents ' base while retaining their own.

David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":

A classic fast torpedo boat action was the Channel Dash in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs.

Galas ' performance consisted of covering her body in cattle blood and reinterpreting biblical texts and classic literature ; she said it was a protest against what she saw as the ignorance and condemnation towards people with AIDS from religious and political groups.

It is possible that, being mortal enemies of the Carthaginians, the classic historians may have engaged in a sort of propaganda against their enemies.

In his classic essay The Art of Fiction ( 1884 ), he argued against rigid proscriptions on the novelist's choice of subject and method of treatment.

On March 13, 2012 Bert Fields, attorney for the estate of Mario Puzo filed a counterclaim against Paramount Pictures, who sued the estate to stop the author ’ s son, Anthony Puzo, from publishing a new sequel to his father ’ s classic Mafia saga, " The Godfather.

Often, he is mentioned mostly as a symbol that the artist is familiar with the works of classic writers in the struggle against colonialism.

In 2007, Canadian network TVtropolis aired a series called " TV Match Up " which pitted classic television shows against each other ; one particular episode featured The Monkees versus S Club 7.

After Lowell's death in 1916, astronomers developed a consensus against the canal hypothesis, but the popular concept of Martian canals excavated by intelligent Martians remained in the public mind for the first half of the 20th century, and inspired a corpus of works of classic science fiction.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

In 1987 he came back from injury in a classic game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The 1973 oil crisis was a turning point against the " traditional classic American station wagon — with its acres of fake woodgrain siding, sticky vinyl bench seats and lazy-revving V-8 engine ", which have been described as " wallowing land arks ".

This novel has become a modern classic, a standard against which fictional recreations of antiquity are measured.

Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of classic antiquity inspired directly from the classical period, which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo style.

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

The novel is structured as a series of long semi-independent chapters ; each a distinct story within a long campaign by the protagonist Sam – a classic trickster character – against the established gods of the world.

In classic mythology, below Uranus ( sky ), Gaia ( earth ), and Pontus ( sea ) is Tartarus, or Tartaros ( Greek: Τάρταρος, from τάρταρον " tartar encrusting the sides of casks ").

Alongside " classic " spells, charms, illusions, black magick, there is a special class of magic, Basic Magick ( BM ) dealing with spells manipulating the four elements ( water, air, fire, earth ) and their derivatives ( ice, cold, heat, light, dark, sand, dust, rain, etc ..) All sorts of BM are the result of mixing of at least one spell of creation / manipulation ( and up to three ) and an element.

Lord Kitchener applied scorched earth policy during the later part of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) when the Boers, not conforming to classic military defeat when the their two capital cities where captured, but never on the battlefield, adopted the first modern form of what we know today as guerrilla warfare, in order to rid their republics of the British.

The Five Elements or Forces ( wu xing ) – which, according to the Chinese, are metal, earth, fire, water, and wood – are first mentioned in Chinese literature in a chapter of the classic Book of History.

In it, the King Zhao of Chu asked Guanshefu ( 觀射父 ) a question: " What did ancient classic " Zhou Shu " mean by the sentence that Zhong and Li caused the heaven and earth to disconnect from each other?

The defenses raised at this time would have been of earth and timber, probably in the classic Norman motte-and-bailey style.

" In Cleveland, a reviewer for The Plain Dealer said: " As Rachel Carson's " Silent Spring " once catalyzed us to save our birds and better steward our earth, ' Half the Sky ' stands to become a classic, spurring us to spare impoverished women these terrors, and elevate them to turn around the future of their nations.

The Preamble begins with a classic statement of a two-class analysis of capitalism: “ The working class and the employing class have nothing in common .” The class struggle will continue until the victory of the working class: “ Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system .” The Preamble denounces trade unions as incapable of coping with the power of the employing class.

This discovery, however, would lead to the grand revelation of a deeper story line in classic Babylon 5 style: the attack on earth is just a single battle in a larger war.

The Phaedo has come to be considered as a seminal formulation of " a whole range of dualities, which have become deeply ingrained in Western philosophy, theology, and psychology over two millennia, received their classic formulation: soul and body, mind and matter, intellect and sense, reason and emotion, reality and appearance, unity and plurality, perfection and imperfection, immortal and mortal, permanence and change, eternal and temporal, divine and human, heaven and earth.