What is the fallacy of the suppressed correlative?

A. It is the same as an ad hominem argument.
B. It states that you can understand yourself by suppressing your memories of your family history.
C. It is a phenomenon where something becomes meaningless if it doesn't have any opposite.
D. It is one way of criticizing ethical egoism: you can't really achieve happiness if you think you can avoid a problem by suppressing it.


C. It is a phenomenon where something becomes meaningless if it doesn't have any opposite.

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