Given the Following Syllogism

question 355

Multiple Choice

Given the following syllogism:
No tigers are bears.

This syllogism commits the existential fallacy from:

• A) The Aristotelian standpoint but not from the Boolean standpoint.
• B) Both the Boolean and the Aristotelian standpoints.
• C) The Boolean standpoint but not from the Aristotelian standpoint.
• D) Neither the Boolean nor the Aristotelian standpoint.
• E) The syllogistic standpoint.

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