INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. No mint juleps are sour concoctions. Therefore, no sour concoctions are mint juleps
A) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
B) Invalid, illicit conversion.
C) Invalid, illicit contrary.
D) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
E) Valid, no fallacy.
E
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