The logical fallacy of suppressed correlative is a type of argument which tries to redefine a correlative (two mutually exclusive options) so that one alternative encompasses the other, i.e. making one alternative impossible.
Examples:
- Anne: "OK, I can prove that Ants are not small. To Bacteria they are large". Bill: "OK, so Bacteria are small!". Anne: "No, because to a virus they are large. Everything is large to something, so nothing is really small!"
- Well, I would give money to the poor, but I believe that the world is so wonderful and rich that nobody can really be poor.
- Priest: "God is what science can't explain - you can explain how the body works, not why your ancestors survived and you are here and alive and not someone else." Atheist: "Well by that definition I suppose everyone believes in God"
- All dogs are black, when it is dark. Therefore Lassie is a black dog.