Several years ago many of todays critics of slippery slope theory would have said that an attempt to regulate salt would constitute evidence.
"The beverage industry takes the position that you can't allow this to happen anywhere at any time, based on the slippery-slope theory," Michael A. Nutter, Philadelphia's mayor, who has proposed a 2-cents-an-ounce tax, said this week.
Alpha has always been a slippery concept: in theory there should not be much of it about and academics have struggled to find evidence that the industry consistently realises it for clients.
The album's slinky lead single, "Drivin' Down the Block (The Low End Theory)," is a slippery homage to the alt-rap pioneers A Tribe Called Quest and their pivotal 1991 LP, "The Low End Theory" (Jive).
This reductio ad absurdum of the multiverse theory reveals what a very slippery slope it is indeed.
The achieved conclusion gives a further interpretation to friction behavior of insect on variable substrates, also provides theory for biomimetic designing a slippery plate utilized for trapping plague locusts.
There are individual monographs on many of the well-known fallacies, among them, Begging the Question (1991), Slippery Slope Arguments (1992), Ad Hominem Arguments (1998), and a comprehensive work on fallacy theory, A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy (1995).
And among intellectually inclined Britons, the insights of postwar French theory into how words might have loaded or shifting or slippery meanings were belatedly circulating.
The model is based on lubrication theory with an assumption that the piston ring is a slippery bearing.
Matmos's performance of Robert Ashley's bonkers spoken-word opera Perfect Lives is indeed perfection: a workaday tale of Hopper-style nighthawks that draws in astrophysics, child development theories and boogie woogie, whipping it all into absurdly slippery kitsch.
It's an approach that is partly based on tech that Ciabarra built, but also a theory that he has about how to combat some of the slippery and darker forces of the web.
