INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. Some butterflies are not non-birds. Therefore, some butterflies are birds
A) Invalid; existential fallacy.
B) Invalid; illicit contraposition.
C) Invalid; illicit subalternation.
D) Valid; no fallacy.
E) Invalid; illicit subcontrary.
D
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