INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. Some lamps containing genies are occasions for surprise. Therefore, some occasions for surprise are lamps containing genies

A) Valid, no fallacy.

B) Invalid, illicit conversion.

C) Invalid, illicit contrary.

D) Invalid, existential fallacy.

E) Invalid, illicit obversion.


A

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