No sugar plum fairies are threatening beasts. Therefore, some sugar plum fairies are not threatening beasts.

A. Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
B. Valid.
C. Invalid, existential fallacy.
D. Invalid, illicit subalternation.


Ans: C. Invalid, existential fallacy.

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