INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. No tooth fairies are philanthropists. Therefore, it is false that all tooth fairies are philanthropists
A) Invalid; existential fallacy.
B) Invalid; illicit contrary.
C) Valid; no fallacy.
D) Invalid; illicit contraposition.
E) Invalid; illicit subalternation.
A
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