Making a claim that needs justification, then demanding that the interlocutor justifies the opposite of the claim. The burden of proof is a legal and philosophical concept with differences in each domain.
Examples:
- _Jack: I have tiny, invisible unicorns living in my anus.
Nick: How do you figure?
Jack: Can you prove that I don’t?
Nick: No.
Jack: Then I do._
Synonyms: burden of proof [general concept], burden of proof fallacy, misplaced burden of proof, shifting the burden of proof