INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that no exercise machines are cumbersome devices. Therefore, all exercise machines are cumbersome devices
A) Invalid, existential fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
D) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
E) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
B
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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