INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that all water sprites are charming nymphs. Therefore, some water sprites are not charming nymphs
A) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
B) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
C) Invalid, existential fallacy.
D) Valid, no fallacy.
E) Invalid, illicit contrary.
D
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