INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. Some dark haired pixies are elves that play tricks. Therefore, some elves that do not play tricks are light haired pixies

A) Invalid, illicit conversion.

B) Invalid, illicit contraposition.

C) Invalid, existential fallacy.

D) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.

E) Valid, no fallacy.


B

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