INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint. Some rabbits are not birds. Therefore, no rabbits are birds
A) Valid; existential fallacy.
B) Invalid; illicit conversion.
C) Invalid; illicit subalternation.
D) Valid; no fallacy.
E) Invalid; illicit contrary.
C
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