INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that some veterinarians are not animal lovers. Therefore, some veterinarians are animal lovers
A) Invalid, illicit conversion.
B) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
C) Valid, no fallacy.
D) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
E) Invalid, existential fallacy.
C
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