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I know this as the Kafka trap fallacy. "A Kafka trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x since someone wh

I know this as the Kafka trap fallacy. "A Kafka trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x since someone who is x would deny being x. The name is derived from the novel The Trial by the Austrian writer Franz Kafka." Source: https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap

thaumasiotes 6y ago
> A Kafka trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x I think this concept is better known under the name "witch hunt".
pcwelder 6y ago
Also related to the fallacy of false dichotomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma