I wonder, is there a name for that …fallacy/strategy (I don’t really know what else I could call it)
It looks a lot like judging witches. If they deny they are witches, they clearly are, because that’s what a witch would do. If they don’t deny it, well, they are just telling you the truth.
I wonder, is there a name for that …fallacy/strategy (I don’t really know what else I could call it)
It looks a lot like judging witches. If they deny they are witches, they clearly are, because that’s what a witch would do. If they don’t deny it, well, they are just telling you the truth.
There’s an article from the Sequences on the subject.
Is it really the same?
The example it opens with is the absence of sabotage “proving” the existence of saboteurs, and the Salem witch trials are mentioned in the comments.
It could be called “witch-finding”.