INSTRUCTIONS: Identify the form of each argument. Those without a specific name are invalid. If computers can play chess, then they can think. But computers cannot think. Thus, computers cannot play chess
A) Disjunctive syllogism.
B) Invalid.
C) Denying the antecedent.
D) Affirming the consequent.
E) Modus tollens.
E
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