INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. No griffins are flightless predators. Therefore, all griffins are flying predators
A) Valid, no fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
D) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
E) Invalid, existential fallacy.
A
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