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

A) Invalid; existential fallacy.

B) Valid; no fallacy.

C) Invalid; illicit contradiction.

D) Invalid; illicit subalternation.

E) Invalid; illicit conversion.


B

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