INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. No unicorns are goats. Therefore, it is false that all unicorns are goats
A) Invalid; illicit contraposition.
B) Invalid; illicit contrary.
C) Valid; no fallacy.
D) Invalid; illicit subalternation.
E) Invalid; existential fallacy.
E
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