Question

Read the following sentence: Our school needs a dress code now. Before you know it, students will be showing up in bathing suits and sandals. Which type of logical fallacy does the sentence represent? A. Slippery slope B. Circular reasoning C. Bandwagon D. Non sequitur

Answer 1

Answer:

A: Slippery slope

Explanation:

 The sentence represents the type of fallacy called Slippery slope, which starts with an insignificant statement or event  ("Our school needs a dress code now") that leads to another more significant but not likely to happen , or can even suggest a ridiculous outcome ("students willbe showing up in bathing suits and sandals."). The connection between the ideas is "and next..." ("Before you know it")

Answer 2

A) slippery slope because the speaker is jumping to a conclusion that may or may not happen