INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. Some crystal vases are not China teapots. Therefore, some China teapots are not crystal vases
A) Valid, no fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
D) Invalid, illicit conversion.
E) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
D
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