INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that some sailboats are steamships. Therefore, some sailboats are not steamships
A) Valid, no fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
D) Invalid, illicit conversion.
E) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
A
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