INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. All tooth fairies are silent visitors. Therefore, no tooth fairies are noisy visitors
A) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
B) Valid, no fallacy.
C) Invalid, existential fallacy.
D) Invalid, illicit contrary.
E) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
B
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