INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. It is false that some two-hundred pound mice are warthogs. Therefore, it is false that all two-hundred pound mice are warthogs
A) Invalid, illicit conversion.
B) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
C) Invalid, illicit subcontrary.
D) Valid, no fallacy.
E) Invalid, existential fallacy.
E
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