INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. No credit crunches are financial blessings. Therefore, some credit crunches are not financial blessings
A) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
B) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
C) Valid, no fallacy.
D) Invalid, illicit contrary.
E) Invalid, illicit conversion.
C
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a. modus ponens. b. modus tollens. c. hypothetical syllogism. d. disjunctive syllogism. e. enumerative induction. f. analogical induction. g. invalid
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