Shifting the burden of proof

What it is

Demands that others disprove a claim instead of supporting it with evidence. Whoever makes a claim, especially an extraordinary one, carries the burden of supporting it.

Related

• Appeal to ignorance fallacy
  Appeals to ignorance work by demanding that others disprove a claim, which reverses the burden of proof.
• Moving the goalposts fallacy
  Shifting the burden of proof and moving the goalposts both change what must be shown, so the claim is never satisfied.
• Argument from repetition fallacy
  Repeating a claim feels like progress and puts the effort on the other side, a mild way of shifting the burden.
• Gish gallop fallacy
  A Gish gallop exploits the asymmetry that asserting is cheap and refuting is costly, leaving the burden on the respondent.

References

• Wikipedia: Shifting the burden of proof en.wikipedia.org
• Your Logical Fallacy Is: Burden of proof yourlogicalfallacyis.com
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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