INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. Some reclusive gnomes are not playful sprites. Therefore, some playful sprites are not reclusive gnomes
A) Invalid, existential fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
C) Invalid, illicit conversion.
D) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
E) Valid.
C
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