Kafkatrap

Meanings

Noun

• A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.

Verb

• To employ a Kafkatrap against (someone).

Origin

• From Kafka + trap, (see the quotation below) in reference to the book Der Proceß (The Trial, 1925) by the Bohemian author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), in which a man is accused of crimes that are never specified.