What form (what type of categorical syllogism) does this argument take?

Major premise: If a country has a participant culture, then democracy in that country will be stable.
Minor premise: Democracy in country X is stable.
Conclusion: Therefore, country X has a participant culture.

A. affirming the antecedent
B. denying the antecedent
C. affirming the consequent
D. denying the consequent


C. affirming the consequent

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a. setting an agenda b. notifying the media c. evaluating current systems d. identifying (or acknowledging) the problem

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The Berlin Wall fell in the year

a. 1956. b. 1989. c. 1945. d. 1968. e. 1993.

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