INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. All married bachelors are polygamists. Therefore, it is false that some married bachelors are not polygamists
A) Invalid, existential fallacy.
B) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
C) Valid, no fallacy.
D) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
E) Invalid, illicit contrary.
C
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