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Descriptor English: Wedge Argument
Descriptor Spanish: Argumento Refutable
Descriptor argumento refutable
Scope note: Aseveración de que una acción aparentemente incuestionable en sí misma podría desencadenar una serie de acontecimientos que finalmente conducirían a un resultado no deseado. (Traducción libre del original: Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995)
Descriptor Portuguese: Argumento Refutável
Descriptor French: Argument de la pente glissante
Entry term(s): Slippery Slope Argument
Slippery Slope Arguments
Wedge Arguments
Tree number(s): K01.752.566.479.113.875
N05.350.244.875
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D035761
Scope note: An assertion that an action apparently unobjectionable in itself would set in motion a train of events leading ultimately to an undesirable outcome. (From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Ethics (1974-2002)
Public MeSH Note: 2003
History Note: 2003
DeCS ID: 37702
Unique ID: D035761
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Date Established: 2003/01/01
Date of Entry: 2002/07/03
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Wedge Argument - Preferred
Concept UI M0007847
Scope note An assertion that an action apparently unobjectionable in itself would set in motion a train of events leading ultimately to an undesirable outcome. (From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995)
Preferred term Wedge Argument
Entry term(s) Slippery Slope Argument
Slippery Slope Arguments
Wedge Arguments



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