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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