INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. It is false that some teacups are flowerpots. Therefore, some teacups are not flowerpots

A) Valid; no fallacy.

B) Invalid; illicit subcontrary.

C) Invalid; illicit subalternation.

D) Invalid; illicit conversion.

E) Invalid; existential fallacy.


A

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