INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. It is false that some square triangles are cubes. Therefore, no square triangles are cubes

A) Invalid; illicit subalternation.

B) Invalid; existential fallacy.

C) Invalid; illicit contradiction.

D) Valid; no fallacy.

E) Invalid; illicit conversion.


D

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