INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that no bats are animals that carry rabies. Therefore, some bats are animals that carry rabies

A) Valid.

B) Invalid, illicit contrary.

C) Invalid, illicit subalternation.

D) Invalid, existential fallacy.

E) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.


A

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